Leros

Residents and local officials on the Aegean island of Leros on Friday blocked a passenger ferry carrying 40 migrants from Symi from disembarking.
Leros Mayor Michalis Kolias has protested against plans to move more migrants to the island where facilities, originally designed for 800 people, allegedly now hold around 3,000.
The vessel was redirected to Kos.

Authorities and locals on Leros are protesting against plans to move more migrants to the Aegean island.
In comments made to Rodiaki newspaper, Leros Mayor Michalis Kolias said that island facilities currently hold around 3,000 migrants at a capacity of 800.

Around 300 migrants and refugees who arrived from Turkey over the past few days are to be transferred off the southeastern Aegean island of Symi by the end of the week.

The decision comes in response to a number of complaints made by Symi Mayor Eleftherios Papakalodoukas, who has stressed that his island is completely unequipped to host, feed and care for asylum-seekers.

The prospects of a breakthrough in an investigation into the disappearance of military equipment and weapons from a navy base on Leros last week appeared unclear on Monday after the credibility of a key witness was questioned.

An investigation into the disappearance of a significant amount of military equipment and weapons from a naval base on the southern Aegean island of Leros was gathering pace on Thursday, with the net closing around three suspects, Kathimerini understands.

The Hellenic Navy on Thursday denied a press report claiming that anti-personnel landmines were stolen along with other military equipment from its base on the island of Leros on Monday, saying it does not have any such weapons in stock.

As an investigation gets under way into the disappearance of a significant amount of military equipment and weapons from a naval base on the southern Aegean island of Leros, sources at the Greek Police and the country's armed forces suggest that suspicions are focusing on two guards who had access to the area where the equipment was stored.

Greece has launched an investigation after an inspection revealed that weapons were missing from a navy facility on the Aegean island of Leros, its government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Authorities found anti-tank weapons, ammunition and hand grenades missing from a warehouse on the base this week, according to officials.

Greek authorities were on alert on Tuesday following reports that a significant amount of military equipment has disappeared from a naval base on the southern Aegean island of Leros.

A team from the police's counter-terrorism unit was dispatched to the southeastern Aegean island of Leros on Tuesday morning to lead an investigation into the disappearance of military equipment from a navy base.