"Excessive force has not been used. No bullets have been used. The Greek army and police forces have used all kinds of proportionate measures to keep all these people away from Greece's borders," State Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis told CNN on Friday.
Greek Minister of State George Gerapetritis met with UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin in Switzerland, and invited him on behalf of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to visit Greece and contribute technical know-how for the restructuring of professional football in the country.
State Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis will chair a meeting of ministers at Maximos Mansion on Monday to try and resolve the issue of transportation at the island of Samothrace that left hundreds of tourists unable to reach Alexandroupolis on the mainland for over a week, government sources said on Friday.