On Sunday mornings, after having been informed by Port Authority officials. Mytilene, which operated ground diopters, a Mythimna Port Authority patrol boat spotted an inflatable speedboat moving at high speed from the coast of Greece to the coast of Turkey..

Thereafter, the operator of said vessel, tried to leave and did not respond to the sound signals of the patrol boat LS-EL.AKT.

The pursuit was followed by a patrol boat LS-EL.AKT. fired two warning shots, but the boat in question did not stop.

Then the patrol boat LS-EL.AKT. fired four shots at the engine, as a result of which the ship was immobilized and the arrest of her 40-year-old foreign cameraman. The Port Authority of Mythimna confiscated an inflatable boat, a mobile phone and an eight-centimeter knife.

A preliminary investigation is being conducted by the administration of the central port of Mytilene.while, according to a statement by a 40-year-old man, he transported eight foreigners wanted by the relevant port authority, as well as the Lesbos Police Department, for a fee.

Source: RES-IPE

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