As dozens of migrants continue to land daily on the shores of eastern Aegean islands, and tensions rise in reception centers, local communities are becoming increasingly divided over growing migrant populations.
A total of 438 people arrived on the islands aboard smuggling boats from Turkey in the first three days of the week, with another 175 people arriving on the islet of Oinousses yesterday morning. Source Ekathimerini
This Sunday around 1:30 in the morning, police were caught by around forty individuals in the city of laurels in the 13th arrondissement of Marseille. The attackers surrounded the police officers and beat them up. The police asked for reinforcements and were forced to shoot in the air with their service weapon, to escape. Source Actu 17
Clashes in southern Tripoli have killed 96 and injured more than 300 since it began on August 26, said the Wounded Affairs Department of the Libyan Ministry of Health on Friday, Xinhua reported. Source Trend News
Cyprus was trying to secure the release of five fishermen who were taken into custody by a Turkish warship Friday as they were fishing off the northern coast of the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation. Source Ekathimerini
