(Kathimerini) A total of 116 refugees from Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, including 30 families with children, departed from the island of Lesvos on a charter flight to Hannover in Germany on Wednesday morning.
It was the first direct flight from an Aegean island to a European Union country under the relocation program, which is being implemented by the Migration Ministry in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration, with funding from the European Commission.
Wednesday’s direct flight took place following the agreement between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the aftermath of the catastrophic fire at the Moria camp last September.
