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Syrian migrants posing as Ukrainian volleyball players arrested at Greek airport
Greek police have arrested ten Syrian migrants who were disguised as Ukrainian volleyball players.
The group, who all wore matching tracksuits, was arrested at Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos airport after borders and customs officials discovered that they were using Ukrainian passports that were clearly not their own, and had been reported lost or stolen.
According to police, the group had hoped...
Hundreds Land on Greek Islands in One Day
Migrants are flooding the Greek islands again, with another 427 arriving in a single day, according to reports.
Thousands of migrants and human traffickers have been setting sail from Turkey this summer, often bound for Greece.
“Within a 24-hour period, 427 migrants reached the islands of Rhodes, Lesbos and Samos in the east of the Aegean Sea this morning, the Greek coast guard has announced,”...
Greece Warns Turkey against "threatening Europeans with flood of migrants"
Greece’s new conservative Prime Minister has warned Turkey’s Erdogan against threatening Europe with a new wave of migrants after the Turkish Prime Minister threatened last week to “open the gates” and let millions of migrants flood into Europe.
Erdogan’s words were spoken amid rising tensions between Turkey and the United States over delays in the creation of a safe zone in Syria.
“Our...
Greece's new conservative government tells Germany it wants war reparations paid
During a recent state visit to Berlin, Greece’s recently elected head of state Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he hopes Germany will agree to begin negotiations surrounding war reparations, the Associated Press reports.
Following a meeting with Chancellor Merkel on Thursday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the New Democracy party told members of the press “we hope there will be a positive...
Greece: Athens police raid squatter camps sheltering illegal migrants and far-left anarchists
Police in Athens carried out several raids on apartments and buildings in the Exarchia district which have been known to shelter illegal immigrants and far-left anarchists.
According to the Greek Reporter, “The police sweeps, which began last week, are being undertaken with an aim to combat drug trafficking and illegal immigration as well as squatting in vacant buildings.”
Thanks to Monday’s...
Conservatives win Greek election with promise to revive economy, unseating leftist Syriza
Conservatives are returning to power in Greece after crushing the leftist ruling party, which failed in its pledge to fight austerity. Now New Democracy offers more jobs and less taxes for austerity-weary Greeks.
The party of opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has claimed 39.74 percent of the vote, with Syriza trailing on 31.5 percent, the Interior Ministry said, after counting nearly 45 percent...
36 Greeks arrested for raising giant Christian cross to scare off migrants in Lesbos
Police arrested 35 Greek citizens and an Albanian man on the Greek island of Lesbos for raising a giant metallic cross meant to deter migrants and refugees from reaching the island.
They were arrested on charges of arbitrary occupation of public property and erecting an illegal construction.
The site on the cliffs of Apellia in Mytilene – Lesbos’ capital city – is on the grounds of the island’s...
Israel Funds "Refugee Aid Centers" in Greece says Israeli Media
Jews—from Israel and America—are paid by the Israeli government to run almost all the “refugee aid centers” in Greece, directly boosting the nonwhite invasion of Europe, the Israeli media has admitted, while Israel refuses to accept any “refugees,” builds walls to keep them out and only allows racially-pure tested by DNA Jews to immigrate to Israel.
An article in the Israeli Ynet News,...
2 Syrian refugees beat up an Orthodox priest in Athens, Greece
A priest has been beaten up by two Syrians in Athens, Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.
According to the newspaper, the incident took place outside the Sanctuary of St. Nicholas in Patisia, Athens.
When the priest was going to the Sanctuary he noticed that one motorcycle was illegally parked in the garden of the temple. After the priest complained to the Syrian owners about that, both the perpetrators...
Dutch action group arrives in Greece to pick up refugees and bring them to the Netherlands
A Netherlands based action group called “We Gaan Ze Halen” (We are going to get them), wants to transport refugees from Greek camps to the Netherlands.
The group says the conditions in Greek refugee camps is “a humanitarian disaster”, especially for children who are at risk for physical and sexual violence.
Their initial idea was to travel with a bus from to Greece and start transporting refugees...
Greece: Massive increase of attacks on Christian symbols and Orthodox churches
Each year there are more attacks on churches, chapels, atypical places of religious worship, religious monuments, synagogues and even cemeteries, Greek newspaper Eleftheros Typos reports.
Specifically, according to the Greek Aggressional Secretariat of Religions, last year the attacks on religious buildings (includes vandalism, burglaries, thefts, sacrifices, fires, etc.) rose by 159 per cent, while...
Greece threatens to crush Turkey if they dare to invade their Aegean Islands
Greece’s top military brass have fired off a set of unusually stern warnings to Turkey, threatening to crush its troops if they dare to land on any disputed islet in the Aegean Sea – but Ankara didn’t mince its words either.
Reacting to violations of Greek airspace by Turkish jets over the Aegean, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos warned that Ankara would pay a price. “If they make the slightest...
Danish NGO has illegally turned Greek airport into a refugee camp
According to the Greek MP Christos Chatzisavvas, of the Greek nationalist party Golden Dawn, the airport of Polykastro has been illegally transformed into a refugee camp by the NGO “Danish Refugee Council”.
The MP filed a question to the competent ministers, in which he quotes a press release of the Polykastro Air Force Training Academy.
Specifically, the Academy states that since 1986 the Hellenic...
Leftists blow up Athens TV station in Terrorist attack, Greek PM calls it attack against democracy
A powerful bomb exploded early Monday outside the southern Athens headquarters of Greece’s private Skai broadcaster, which has been strongly critical of government policies, damaging the glass-fronted building but causing no injuries.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, which resembled attacks by domestic extreme left-wing and anarchist groups, whose past targets have...
New patriotic Greek party wants higher birth rates and to protect Europe from Islamic colonisation
In my series of articles on the new conservative parties likely to take seats in next year’s EU elections and in their own countries’ internal elections, this column focuses on my friend and great patriot, Failos Kranidiotis of Nea Dexia (the New Right).
I first met Failos and his colleagues when they applied to join the ENF’s pan European party, the Movement for Nations and Liberty (MENL).
I...