Border Patrol: Frontex and Greek Coast Guard Intercept 96 Migrants Off Southern Crete

A Hellenic Coast Guard patrol boat has safely rescued 96 migrants from two overcrowded dinghies drifting off the coast of Crete, marking the latest intercept along an increasingly active Mediterranean smuggling route. The operations unfolded in the sea region of Kaloi Limenes, a small port on Crete’s southern shoreline, after a surveillance aircraft operated by the European Union border agency, Frontex, spotted the two vessels. Regional maritime authorities immediately dispatched a patrol bo...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA