A baby has died during the attempt of landing of a group of migrants in Mitilini (Lesvos island, Greece). According to the site Cnn.gr, the boat – party from the nearby Turkish coast – is overturned when he was approached by a unit of the Greek coast Guard. According to it, 46 people have been saved. The corpse of the child was found shortly after. In the night 5 boats arrived on the island, the two came to Chios and the other two in Samos.
The news comes as the Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the suspension of submission of applications for asylum in Greece for the entire month. According to the minister, to prevent the entry of new migrants coming from Turkey, “the level of deterrence at the borders has been brought to the maximum”.
According to the leaders of the government of Athens, yesterday, the police had blocked about 10 thousand people in the process of crossing the border with Turkey, in particular in the area of Evros. On Friday, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara would permit the transit of migrants towards the countries of the Eu in the wake of the intensification of the armed conflict in the syrian region of Idlib.
Meanwhile, tomorrow the presidents of the Eu Commission, Eurocamera and the european Council, Ursula von der Leyen, David Sassoli and Charles Michel will be the land frontier between Greece and Turkey, the Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. This was announced by the same Mitsotakis on Twitter, commenting: “An important manifestation of support by the three institutions, at a time when Greece is defending the Eu’s borders-with success.”
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