The founder of the Greek non-governmental organisation Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI), who is wanted on charges of migrant trafficking, on Wednesday appeared at the office of the Mytilene public prosecutor accompanied by his lawyer and turned himself in.

The islands of the eastern Aegean are facing a crisis with the thousands of immigrants who are locked in reception centers originally designed to accommodate much fewer people.

While Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was speaking at the 14th Regional Conference of the North Aegean, in Mytilene, there were protest marches in which the inhabitants of the island of Lesvos were involved.