Mytilene

Τhe muncipal council of Mytilene, the main town of the island of Lesvos, voted for the establishment of a new reception and identification structure for temporary migrants and refugees at a meeting late Wednesday.

The new facility was marginally approved in a virtual meeting that ended at midnight with 16 votes in favor and 15 against.

More than 2,000 refugees and migrants, holding their belongings, gathered at the main port of the island of Lesvos on Tuesday afternoon, following a rumor that a passenger ferry would transport them to the mainland.

The council of the North Aegean Region on Tuesday voted to take legal action against a legislative act announced by the government to expropriate land and properties on five islands for the creation of detention centers for asylum seekers.

The council also agreed to suspend all cooperation with the government until it repeals the  legislative act that will enforce the measures.

Greek police fired teargas to disperse migrants and refugees protesting on Feb. 3 about conditions in migrant camps on the island of Lesbos and the slow pace of processing asylum requests.   

Violence broke out near the Kara Tepe camp, a police official said, after hundreds of people marched from the island's congested migrant camps to the city of Mytilene.

Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis suggested on Monday that the clashes that broke out between police and refugees near a migrant camp in Lesvos may have been incited by unnamed individuals.

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale was recorded in the sea suth of Rhodes and west of Crete, based on an initial estimate of the Athens Geodynamics Institute on Tuesday evening.
The quake's epicentre was located 112 km east of the town of Mytilene at a depth 10 km. No injuries or damages were reported.

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale was recorded in the sea suth of Rhodes and west of Crete, based on an initial estimate of the Athens Geodynamics Institute on Tuesday evening.
The quake's epicentre was located 112 km east of the town of Mytilene at a depth 10 km. No injuries or damages were reported.

A day after one woman was killed and her child was injured in a fire that broke out inside the Moria migrant camp on Lesvos, about 200 women with their children held a sitting protest outside the overcrowded identification center on Monday afternoon.

A letter distributed by the French post office in Smyrna on the day of the city's destruction on September 13, 1922. The "Free Lesvos" stamps printed by rebels in the island's main town of Mytilene. A propaganda stamp issued in Nazi-occupied Athens in January 1944 depicting the allied bombing of Piraeus port.

A section of the port on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos is being named after Kyriakos Papadopoulos, the late coast guard officer who distinguished himself during the peak of the refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016 and was credited with more than 5,000 rescues.