Mytilene

Six men who were arrested over a violent street brawl on the island of Lesvos were released on Monday morning pending their trial in September next year.

They were arrested on Sunday night after another four men filed a lawsuit claiming they were attacked by the six while they painted a large scale Greek flag near the port city of Mytilene. 

A memorial on the Aegean island of Lesvos erected in memory of the hundreds of migrants and refugees who have perished while attempting the crossing from Turkey to Greece and the European Union has been destroyed by vandals.

Protesters rock a riot police bus outside a venue where Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is scheduled to speak at a regional conference in the town of Mytilene on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesvos, on Thursday, May 3, 2018. Local residents responded to the visit with closed stores and strikes, in a protest against the overcrowded refugee camps on the island and the imminent rises in VAT.

Migrants who had been camping out in Thessaloniki's central Aristotelous Square since Thursday were transferred to a state-run reception facility in nearby Diavata by bus on Friday. The sight of migrants at squares in the northern city has become increasingly common amid a spike in arrivals from the Greek-Turkish land border.

The eastern Aegean island of Lesvos was jolted early on Thursday morning by an earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale.

According to the Athens Geodynamic Institute, the tremor occurred at 3.55 a.m., while its epicenter was located at sea, 67 kilometers northwest of Mytilene town.

The founders of Turkey's first contemporary art Museum, Elgiz Museum, have made a long-time dream come true by opening an exhibition, titled "Lines of Passage" (in medias res), at Halim Bey Mansion on the Greek island of Mytilene. 

A rumour that 5 Pakistanis and 2 Moroccans died while being transported in a truck in some Greek port, resulted in about 200 Pakistani migrants breaking out of the Moria hotspot in Lesvos, and marching on the city of Mytilene in protest. The Pakistanis smashed two cars of employees outside the reception centre on their way to the city centre, about 8km from the hotspot.

According to the refugee crisis coordinating body, 140 more refugees and migrants reached the shores of the islands of Chios and Lesvos in the past 24 hours. The conditions on the two islands are becoming increasingly unbearable as the the facilities on both are overcrowded.

Bells in Berlin and Mytilene on Lesvos will ring in synchronisation at Tuesday noon, as part of a Greek-German collaborative art project aiming to raise awareness about the refugee crisis.

Greek Presidet Prokopis Pavlopoulos addressed members of the Lesbos Coast Guard during his visit to the island on Sunday. “Your example is one of civilization and humanity,” he said. “And until Europe makes its decisions, the weight falls on your shoulders but also the praise for what you do.”