Seven residents to face prosecutor over attack on NGO workers on Lesvos

Seven residents of Lesvos have been indicted to appear before a prosecutor at the island's main port of Mytilene in connection with an attack on two volunteer workers for the Swiss "One Happy Family" whose recreation facilities for migrants on the island were destroyed last week in a fire whose cause is still being investigated.

The residents, reportedly all young people, face charges of disturbing the peace, verbal abuse and causing bodily harm to the two workers. According to witnesses they attacked the pair on February 27 in a square near the island's main port and then attacked two foreign nationals in a car belonging to the NGO later that day.

According to a statement released by the police, they vandalized the car and physically attacked the two foreign nationals.

It remains unclear whether a fire that broke out last week at the NGO's facility on the...

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