In our country are the first Greeks who experienced the hell of the civil war in Sudan. They were flown from Djibouti by Air Force aircraft, while the operation to repatriate other stranded people is ongoing.

At the same time, an Air Force C-27 transport plane took off from Aswan airport in Egypt bound for Djibouti to receive Greeks who have been transferred from Sudan, among them the Metropolitan of Nubia, Savvas.

This is the second transport aircraft of the Air Force used to transport Greeks from Sudan, as this morning, the first C-27 landed at the 112th Fighter Wing in Elefsina carrying 17 people, including 3 children and a wounded man operated on feet, from where they then continued to Athens.

In the first minutes after their arrival, they described the difficult times they lived in Khartoum, thanked the air force for their safe return and expressed the hope that the rest of the Greeks would also be able to return home. “I have three children, it was very difficult, luckily we live next to the French embassy and we left,” one of the rescued told ERT.

“We came under fire, we were all in danger,” said Christos Dedes after their arrival, whose family was waiting for him at the Elefsina air base. His 6-year-old son and his 5-year-old daughter with drawings on their hands couldn’t wait to hug their father again.