A speedboat with 17 migrants (13 men, 3 women and 1 minor), was spotted in the early hours of the morning by a port patrol boat, northwest of Symis.

The speedboat, which was moving at high speed, was spotted by a land-based camera surveillance team of the Symi Port Authority, while the migrants, who according to their statement had started from Datsa in Turkey, paying the sum of four thousand euros each for their transport to Greece, they were taken to the port of Symi.

From Port Authority which conducts the preliminary investigation, a 46-year-old foreigner was arrested as the operator of the speedboat.

Besides, a high-speed boat with nine migrants (8 men and 1 woman) was detected in the early hours of yesterday morning by a patrol boat of the port, moving at high speed towards the sea area Scissors of Kos.

The pilot of the speedboat, upon seeing the patrol boat, initially attempted to turn around and move towards the Turkish coast, and then stopped.

All the immigrants were transferred to the passenger port of Kos, while a foreigner was arrested by the port authority, as smuggler of immigrants.