Morality

Coast Guard officers intercept 56 migrants off port of Astakos

A group of 56 undocumented migrants were being temporarily hosted in a municipal gymnasium in the port of Astakos in Aetoloacarnania on Monday after being intercepted on a smuggling boat by Greek coast guard officers on Sunday night.

The boat was spotted heading north towards the island of Lefkada, according to Coast Guard officers who detained 44 men, four women and eight children.

Suspected migrant smuggler arrested at Iraklio Airport

A 31-year-old foreign national was arrested on Thursday in Iraklio on Crete on charges of arranging to smuggle illegal immigrants out of the country and forgery.

According to police, the suspect was arrested at Iraklio Airport along with a man, aged 24, and a 48-year-old woman, whom he had supplied with forged travel documents so that they could fly to Germany.

29 illegal Immigrants were Detained in the Filipovtsi Quarter of Sofia,

29 illegal immigrants were detained in Sofia's Filipovtsi district. There are children among them. According to Nova TV, the smallest of them is 4 years old.

They are currently detained in the 9th RPM and the police are looking for a translator to find out where are they from. The informal information is that it may be from Pakistan or Afghanistan.

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