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The Maritime Police team on mission in Greece rescued 61 migrants, including 28 children, on Saturday morning, the National Maritime Authority (AMN) announced.
In a statement, AMN said that at dawn on Saturday, the Coast Guard's surveillance vehicle (VVC) of the Maritime Police detected a boat off Eftalou, still in Turkish waters, with 61 migrants, who were subsequently rescued on Greek territory
. whose men, 16 women and 28 children, come from Afghanistan, Congo and Burkina Faso.
The AMN explains that after the detection of the vessel, "the coordinates were immediately transmitted to the maritime police officers on assignment on the ship" ARADE ", which sailed in the vicinity," having transhipped migrants on their ship when they entered Greek territorial waters.
The National Maritime Authority states that
The Greek Maritime Police's mission as part of the agency Border Control Project FRONTEX aims to support the Greek Coast Guard with the aim of controlling and monitoring the Greek maritime borders external borders of the European Union in the fight against cross-border crime.
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