Beachgoers push boat packed with third-world migrants away from shore after it attempted to land on Greek paradise island
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 11:16 am
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GREECE - Tourists were seen in dramatic footage trying to push a migrant-packed boat away from the shore as they descended on a Greek beach.
A video taken on Saturday shows a small vessel carrying a group of asylum seekers as it attempted to land on Sarakiniko beach in the southern island of Gavdos.
Beach-goers were filmed getting into the water and pushing away the boat with their hands in a bid to stop the illegal migrants, from Libya, from reaching Greek shores.
Bathers then told the migrants not to disembark on the beach and redirected them to the port, according to local media.
The incident comes as the country finds itself tackling a surge in migrant arrivals at its southern borders this year.
Minister of Immigration and Asylum Thanos Plevris said on Monday that authorities were working on removing the migrants from the island, adding that 'within two or three days everyone will have left'.
Earlier this month, Greece's parliament passed a law toughening penalties for rejected asylum seekers and speeding up returns to their home countries.
The Mediterranean nation was on the front-line of a 2015-2016 migration crisis when more than a million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe.
Migrant flows have since fallen. But an upswing in arrivals from Libya through the islands of Crete and Gavdos this year prompted the government to temporarily ban processing asylum applications of migrants coming from North Africa.
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