53 results for "Poseidon"
2015-08-30
The body of 17-year old Iraqi boy was found after a shooting incident aboard a yacht carrying around 70 migrants near the Greek island of Symi on Saturday. The incident took place after a Latvian patrol vessel deployed in operation Poseidon Sea detected the yacht on early Saturday afternoon in Symi Island’s Marathounta Bay. Upon detection by the Latvian vessel, the yacht changed course and began heading for Turkey, ignoring all signals to stop. When approached, it tried to ram the Latvian ...
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2016-01-28
At the request of the Greek authorities for additional assistance at its external borders in the Aegean Frontex launched the deployment of some 400 officers and 15 vessels to the Greek islands on 29 December 2015. Poseidon Rapid Intervention replaced Joint Operation Poseidon Sea with a higher number of officers to assist the Greek authorities in border surveillance, identification and fingerprinting of arriving migrants. The deployment also includes forged document experts and ...
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2016-03-06
Frontex and NATO have reached a common understanding on the form of their cooperation in the Aegean Sea. While Frontex will continue to operate in the Aegean in the framework of operation Poseidon Rapid Intervention, the two organisations will exchange information in real time. Frontex currently deploys 14 vessels and two helicopters in the Aegean, which support Greek authorities in border surveillance, detection of migrants and search and rescue operations. In total, Frontex has 739 officers, ...
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2015-05-26
Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri signed the amended operational plan of the Joint Operation Triton, expanding its operational area and bringing in a number of additional experts, vessels and aircraft.The operational area will be extended to 138 NM south of Sicily. During the peak summer season, Triton will deploy 3 airplanes, 6 Offshore Patrol Vessels, 12 patrol boats, 2 helicopters, 9 debriefing and 6 screening teams.“We have dramatically increased the deployment levels in the ...
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2015-10-08
On Wednesday, 7 October, a Swedish coastal patrol boat deployed in operation Poseidon Sea was rammed by a yacht in Greek territorial waters near the island of Lesbos. The Swedish vessel did not sustain any major damages. The incident took place after the Swedish boat detected a yacht, suspected of being engaged in people smuggling, proceeding at high speed towards Turkey.The Swedish crew attempted to stop and intercept the yacht by the repeated usage of sound and optical signals. The yacht’s ...
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2016-02-12
Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday in Brussels to discuss the coordination of their activities related to the refugee and migrant crisis.This meeting will take place after NATO decided on Thursday to launch an operation near Turkey.Frontex currently has 775 officers and support staff deployed on the Greek islands as part of Poseidon Rapid Intervention. The operation also includes ...
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2012-10-03
The numbers of migrants crossing the Greek-Turkish land border dropped from over 2000 a week in the first week of August to little over 200 in the second week. This is the direct effect of increased surveillance and patrolling activities by the Greek authorities, which included the deployment of an additional 1800 officers along the Evros river at the beginning of August. In September, detections dropped even further from around 70 a week at the beginning of the month to below 30 in the second ...
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2015-08-31
Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri has requested Greek authorities to provide the agency with a progress report and information about the incident, which resulted in the death of a 17-year-old migrant near the Greek island of Symi on Saturday.On early Saturday afternoon, a Latvian patrol vessel deployed in operation Poseidon Sea detected a yacht with more than 90 migrants aboard in Symi Island’s Marathounta Bay.None of the officers from the Latvian vessel involved in the incident used ...
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2015-09-01
Migrants rescued at sea arrive in Mitilini, Lesbos More than 23 000 migrants arrived in Greece by sea last week, nearly 50 percent more than in the previous week, according to preliminary data collected by Frontex. In the Frontex-coordinated Operation Triton in the Central Mediterranean, 5 400 were rescued last week, roughly in line with the previous one. There were also 55 bodies recovered in the seven-day period, mainly those from below the deck of a wooden boat intercepted by Swedish vessel ...
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2015-09-14
A Frontex-financed Latvian helicopter took part in a large rescue operation off the Greek island of Farmakonisi over the weekend. In total, 99 people were saved after their wooden boat capsized in high winds. Greek forces also recovered 34 bodies, including 15 children. The search and rescue operation is still ongoing.The Latvian helicopter and a Latvian patrol boat, which are both taking part in the Frontex-coordinated Operation Poseidon, also took part in a search for four boys between the ...
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