Giorgos Stantzos
Samos mayor calls on islanders to join rally demanding 'decongestion'
Samos Mayor Giorgos Stantzos has appealed to islanders to join a rally planned for 4 p.m. on Monday, calling on the central government to intervene and ease overcrowding at the Vathy migrant reception facility.
No letup in migrant arrivals a week after fire at hotspot
A week after a fire in a severely overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos forced hundreds of people into the streets, daily arrivals on the eastern Aegean islands continue unabated.
Samos mayor warns island at breaking point after migrant camp fire
The mayor of East Samos has warned that a fire at its Vathy migrant reception and processing center earlier his week has brought the eastern Aegean island to breaking point as hundreds of people are having to sleep in the streets and public squares.
Eastern Samos mayor warns of tinderbox conditions as migrant inflows keep growing
On November 1, 2015, the Samos Divers Club was called in by the local coast guard to help with a vessel in distress off the northeastern coast of the eastern Aegean island. The club sent four divers to the location where the Turkish-flagged Kusadasi Ilgun, carrying refugees and migrants, had gone down just 40 meters from land.