Arrests for migrant-smuggling at land border with Turkiye
A police statement said the overnight arrest at the Kipi border crossing followed the detection, using heart-beat monitoring equipment, of four migrants hidden inside the vehicle.
On Saturday, police near the border arrested a man found to be driving a car with eight migrants squashed into it west towards Thessaloniki. Police in the border area have made a series of arrests in the border area in recent days for migrant smuggling, after carrying out inspections on west-headed cars.
About 1,300 people have entered Greece illegally from Turkiye by crossing the northeastern land border in the first two months of the year, according to United Nations data.
57 migrants land on Crete amid spike in arrivals
A total of 57 undocumented migrants landed on the southern island of Crete on Monday amid a spike in arrivals from Africa.
The migrants – all men from Sudan, Egypt and Bangladesh – arrived by dinghy at the coastal settlement of Kaloi Limenes in the Iraklio regional unit. The group included five minors.
They were expected to be transferred to a temporary detention facility on the island.
No further information was immediately available.
Kathimerini
