“Currently eight countries in the Middle East they send missiles to each other, all this comes and locks in mother Egypt which is impoverished and therefore under pressure, since it has about 9 million refugees,” said the Minister of Immigration and Asylum on Monday morning Dimitris Kairideson SKAI and the show “TODAY”.

“Since 2015 not a single boat has left the Egyptian authority and this is to the credit of Egypt, however we have Egyptians from eastern Libya who, driven by great poverty, are coming towards Greece and Italy“, he added.

“Small but worrying flow towards Gavdos and South Crete”

“From November onwards we see a small but worrying flow towards Gavdos and South Crete which must be checked. We need a naval operation, not the Coast Guard, we need large naval vessels off the coast of Libyan territorial waters in cooperation with Europe”, he emphasized and added that “all this has been discussed at length in a European Council, however we are still at a preliminary stage ».

“On 1/2, Mr. Mitsotakis will be at the Summit Council in order to ask again for the money we are entitled to for managing immigration, which is two billion,” he said

Finally, he underlined “Naive not to worry about this whole situation, everyone around us is on fire”.