🔴 A group of 60 to 65 illegal immigrants has been recorded near Xanthi, Greece. They were walking down a mountainous area near the Bulgarian border, showing once again that the immigrants have been using Bulgaria even more recently to get into Greece
>https://archive.is/AJR1i

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Tetradrachm depicting a Macedonian Shield with the Goddess Artemis minted in Amphipolis, Macedonia, Ancient Greece (158/149 BC)

🔴 Video shows Turkish ships illegally fishing extremely close to the shores of the Greek island of Leros, a clear violation of the island's EEZ
>https://archive.is/1pRrl

⚠️ Sadly the video could not be downloaded and can only be viewed at the article page here

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🔴 On the topic of afghan refugees: 92% of afghan refugees in France are men.

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🟢 It is no secret to those who live in Greece that the vast majority of illegal immigrants are men, many of which use the welfare they earn and sometimes the salaries they have to buy things in their home countries

👉 Source: Actualite FR (Telegram)

🇷🇺🇬🇷🇹🇷 The Russian channel @rybar commented on our post regarding Turkish fishing vessels fishing illegally near the island of Leros

Sadly the situation isn't as simple as one might assume, not only due to the Turkish attitude but also due to the Greek government being too soft and not reciprocating the same treatment Turkey has given Greek vessels

There are plenty of videos of Turkish coast guard ships chasing or ramming Greek Coast Guard vessels, sometimes performing maneuvers very close to Greek navy frigates. Greek fishermen have had their boats confiscated, boarded, damaged, some were also arrested or shot at by the Turkish Coast Guard

Turkey does not recognize UNCLOS and tries to claim that half of the Aegean belongs to them, as well as claiming that islands have no right to EEZ's (Exclusive Economic Zone) whatsoever

The correct course of action would indeed be intercepting those vessels, arresting/fining the fishermen and perhaps confiscating their boats. Which most certainly would cause a diplomatic crisis with Turkey. There is also massive pressure by the EU so that Greece wont do anything that could anger Turkey and complicate relations even further, causing the "exploratory talks" to cease once again

Germany in particular tries very hard to appease possible disputes/conflicts between Greece and Turkey, more often than not defending Turkey at the expense of Greece and ignoring open threats by Turkey, the goal is to maintain an eternal "dialogue" and "negotiation" status, in which Turkey never has to compromise and Greece or Cyprus will be on a lose/lose situation in which they dont have full rights over sea (or land in case of Cyprus) and Turkey simply keeps doing whatever they have been doing for the past decades without any repercussion. The Turkish accession process to the EU has been stuck for decades, which is also not a problem since they still receive heavy funding and participate in the EU's common market, having enough benefits so that their official membership isn't a real issue

The Greek Government's only weapon seems to be their veto power in the EU, in which they could block any bills to force the EU to take action against Turkey and their clear violation of international law, as it was attempted during the Belarus Sanction proposal, with Greece and Cyprus demanding the EU to also sanction Turkey for doing the same things, which they said would be analyzed but still have not followed through with even despite several meetings being held and Turkey's actions remained unchanged

If Greece intercepts/confiscates Turkish fishing boats, chances are that Turkey would retaliate and harass or arrest Greek fishermen even more than what they already do. With the EU becoming a weak mediator once again and Turkey using it to justify their aggressive behavior, with the EU blaming both sides for it and nothing would change

⚠️ REFERENCE ⚠️

Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) in Europe, Levant and North Africa according to UNCLOS parameters (The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)

🔴 A Turkish- flagged cargo ship ran aground in the sandy shallows of Mantoudi, Evia, Greece.
>https://archive.is/zheWW

🔸No injuries or water damage were reported after the accident of a cargo ship with 14 foreign crew members in the sandy shallows inside the port of Mantoudi, Evia Island. The ship carries 2,500 metric tons of Pumice stone

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🔴 13 year old boy found wandering alone the streets of Patras, claiming people approached him and tried to kidnap him
>https://archive.is/8JJkw

🔸 A strange incident alarmed the residents of Patras late on Saturday night, when a 13-year-old boy was found unaccompanied calling for help.

👮🏼‍♂️ The minor was taken to the Patras Police, after he allegedly told the police that some people wanted to kidnap him near the Port. However, his mother was later located, who picked him up from the Police Headquarters

⚠️ It should be noted that recently there has been an increase in incidents with minors being found unaccompanied in various parts of Patras

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🇦🇺 Australia Police protects man from superspreader event.

The opening ceremony of the “Warrior of Peace 2021” military competition of the International Army Games took place in Dilijan, Armenia, reported the press service of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.

This is the fourth time this international military contest is being held in Armenia.

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Artak Davtyan, welcomed the participants of this competition and the heads of foreign delegations.

Teams from Greece, Armenia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and, for the first time, Qatar are participating in this competition of the professional skills of military personnel.

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🇫🇷💉 FRANCE: VACCINATED PRISONERS WILL BE RELEASED FASTER

👉🏻 As the french government seeks to encourage vaccination at all levels of society, some prisons have taken steps in this direction.

🔎 Thus, the newspaper 20 Minutes revealed an internal note of August 10, 2021 where the prison of Sarreguemines encourages that :

↪️ "All inmates who will be vaccinated against Covid-19 will automatically benefit from the entirety of their additional potential sentence reductions."

ℹ️ This exceptional procedure aims, according to the internal note, to "encourage vaccination with the aim of achieving collective immunity".

🔥 This information has created an angry reaction in the French population since nearly 30% of citizens still refuse vaccination and are therefore sometimes fired from their jobs or forbidden to take the train or to enter supermarkets. The population complains that they are treated worse than criminals.

🔗 Source : 20 Minutes (MSM)

🔴 Slovenian PM: If Afghan women can fight against the Taliban, so can the men

🔸 “We will not allow the strategic mistake of 2015 to be repeated. We will only help those who have helped us during the NATO mission and the EU Member States that are protecting our external borders,” he said

🔸 In another Twitter post, he wrote: “If women can organize and fight the Taliban, so should men. The EU and Slovenia have no obligation to help and fund all the refugees on the planet, instead of defending their own country"

⚠️ Slovenia has previously indicated it is ready to receive five Afghan refugees who have cooperated with the EU representation in Kabul over the past 20 years, as well as a further 14 who have assisted the Slovenian mission in Afghanistan. They added that all other refugees should be helped by countries neighboring Afghanistan

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🔴 The Cypriot Council of Ministers met yesterday to consider, among other things, the issue of the revocation of travel documents (passports and identities) by "Turkish Cypriot leader" Ersin Tatar, "prime minister" Ersan Sanner and 7 other "officials"
>https://archive.is/pOPee

🔸 About 120,000 Turks living in Occupied Cyprus have passports of the Republic of Cyprus and will not be affected by any decision taken

🔸 An opinion of the Attorney General will be presented to the Council of Ministers, regarding the legal aspect of the matter. The decision is related to acts and declarations that undermine the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus and does not concern the deprivation of citizenship

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🔴 Solidus of Valentinian III (425-455), Western Roman Emperor

👉 Source: The Byzantine Legacy (Twitter)

🔴 Four people are being investigated in Cyprus for posting fake news, in particular that a 12 year old boy would have died after taking the vaccine
>https://archive.is/rBqbg

🔸 Speaking on RIK radio, the spokesman of the Police, Christos Andreou, stated that all four individuals confessed to the "crime", at the same time making their own justifications. The four cases, noted Mr. Andreou, will be sent to the Attorney General with a suggestion to be brought to justice

🔸 The charges concern three men, aged 32, 45 and 55, and a woman aged 58

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🔴 The Greek government has detained and released 211 people suspected of arson and arrested 25 in the last 20 days
>https://archive.is/qyLaz

🔸 According to Police data, from the 3rd of August until the 23rd, 211 people were detained and 25 arrests for arson were made

🚨 12 of those arrested are suspects of arson of fires in Attica, one in Fokida, one in Boeotia, one for a fire in Fthiotida, one in Messinia, one in Ioannina, one in Lesvos, one in Kavala , two in Serres, and one each in Corfu, Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Pella

🔥 Some fires that have broken out in recent days across the country shout that it is an arson. The last example is the fiire front in Karystos - The fire broke out at 2 in the morning, literally out of nowhere and without any reason that would justify causing the fire in a natural way

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🔴 Sea Turtle nest vandalized in Rethymno, Crete, none of the eggs hatched
>https://archive.is/ShpBj

🐢 The volunteers of the association for the protection of sea turtles that are active in Rethymno had located a nest on the beach of Rethymno and took care to mark it with a cage

⚠️ Unfortunately, it seems that the fenced nest was bothering someone, who illegally dug it and transported the eggs to another part of the beach

‼️ With sadness and disappointment, the volunteers of "Archelon" found that due to the intervention - vandalism, out of the 105 eggs that a caretta turtle had laid there, not a single turtle hatched

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🔴 Farmer ambushed and shot dead in Crete, reportedly in front of his child. The perpetrators are still unknown and the police presence in the village is massive as the investigation carries on
>https://archive.is/6lQFI

🔸 The information so far is that the farmer was returning from a supermarket and was not yet inside his home when men hiding in olive groves, he was shot five times, one of the shots hit the man on his head

🔸 The police has no information regarding who the assailants were or why the crime was committed

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