Greece is transferring on Sunday around 450 migrants who were held in a navy ship at the port of Lesvos to a facility at Malakasa, north of Athens.
Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis said in a television interview on Saturday that some of the migrants, who arrived in Lesvos after March 1 when Greece closed its borders to asylum seekers, will also be sent to Serres, Central Macedonia, ahead of deportation.
From the start of March, new arrivals were registered at the central police station in Lesvos and then put on a navy ship, the Rodos, which was dispatched to the island on March 12.
Earlier in the week, a video obtained by German magazine Der Spiegel showed the cramped conditions hundreds of migrants and refugees are having to endure living onboard the “Rodos.”