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Since 2015, when the stream of Middle Eastern, Asian, and African migrants and refugees attempting to enter European Union nations reached its height, Greece became the "main thoroughfare". [32] Greek authorities have argued that the number of newly arrived migrants places a "disproportionate burden" on them. [34]
A Greek judge dismissed a case Tuesday against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union’s border ...
Six migrants drown off the coast of Turkey attempting to reach a Greek island. [47] 50 migrants killed by fumes while packed into the hold and prevented from exiting by the ship's crew off the coast of Libya; survivors were rescued by a Swedish unit. On the boat there traveled another 400 migrants who were rescued.
ATHENS, Greeece (AP) — A speedboat carrying migrants capsized Friday morning off the eastern Greek island of Rhodes, leaving eight dead, Greek authorities said. The coast guard said the incident occurred while the speedboat was carrying out “dangerous maneuvers” to try and evade a patrol vessel, causing migrants to fall into the sea.
The migrants were subsequently boarded onto coast guard boats and were found abandoned in life rafts the next day. Legal Centre Lesvos has filed an ECtHR case on behalf of some of the survivors of this incident. [39] [40] On 25 December 2020, Turkish Coast Guard vessels videotaped Greek Coast Guard leaving migrants stranded in the sea in a ...
Greek rescuers on Wednesday recovered 20 bodies of migrants who drowned after their small boat capsized while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece, the coast guard said, and dozens more were ...
Greece rescued 18 migrants and recovered the bodies of two people, a woman and a man, close to a rocky shore on the island of Lesbos on Wednesday, the coastguard said. The migrants are believed to ...
On 30 September 2019, a fire in the camp killed one Afghan woman [12] who was the wife of the man who would commit the 2023 Lisbon Ismaili Centre stabbings. [13] On 8 September 2020, a fire badly damaged the camp of more than 12,000 asylum seekers. [14] On 10 September, three Greek ships were sent to help shelter the migrants. [15]