For hours now, dozens of Greek citizens – including a group of MERA25 members – have been illegally detained without reason at Cairo airport. Although they have all the necessary travel documents, the Egyptian authorities are preventing them from entering Egypt. The latest information provided to them is that they are about to be deported as a precautionary measure for security reasons and their possible involvement in “actions”.

It is clear that the Greek secret services have been colluding with their Egyptian counterparts and Mossad in this operation. Greek citizens were kept for hours in isolation and now look set to be deported back to Greece in what is clearly no bureaucratic mishap but, rather, part of a coordinated political strategy that exposes the disturbing depth of cooperation between the Mitsotakis, Sisi, and Netanyahu regimes.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Greek government must take immediate action, even at the last minute, to end the detention of its citizens and allow them to enter Egypt without hindrance. They are responsible for the safety, protection, and defence of the rights of Greek citizens, especially when they invoke the close and strategic alliance between Greece and Egypt.

BREAKING:

Members of our Greek party, MeRA25, along with others who flew early this morning to Cairo to be part of the March To Gaza (https://t.co/APLW2SBc03), were apprehended by Egypt’s police at the airport and, after hours of detention, are now being deported.

It is clear…

— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) June 12, 2025

The international initiative March to Gaza is a peaceful and humanitarian mission which lends its voice to the international mobilisation of solidarity with the Palestinian people and demands that humanitarian aid reach Palestinians who are starving and at risk of disease, and that the blockade of Gaza be ended. The Egyptian and Greek governments must provide every facility to the March to Gaza mission and to the struggle of the peoples of Europe to stop the genocide of the Palestinian people.

The Egyptian government, which is threatening deportation, and the Greek government, which is indifferent to the complete disregard of the rights of Greek citizens, if they persist in their stance, are once again demonstrating their commitment to the policy that we know they serve. The strategic cooperation between Greece, Egypt, and Israel means full support for the genocidal policy of the murderous state of Israel, which commits war crimes and is in complete conflict with every concept of international law. This is in line with the US-Israel plan for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people – the complicity in the murder of tens of thousands of civilians which turns “humanitarian aid” into a death trap.

We fiercely condemn the triangle of Sisi, Netanyahu and Mitsotakis, who are clearly in cahoots and will stop at nothing to protect their mutual interests. Their coordinated actions obstruct humanitarian efforts, suppress solidarity movements, and enable war crimes under the pretext of “strategic cooperation”.

The answer is already being given, and will continue to be given, by people around the whole world who are intensifying their struggle to end their countries’ support for Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal policy, for justice for the Palestinian people and, ultimately, for freedom in Palestine.

UPDATE

Our co-founder Yanis Varoufakis took to X at 13:26 CET to report that there was a positive update regarding the DiEM25 members detained in Cairo. Varoufakis stated that he was by an official that their deportation had been cancelled and they were free to continue to the centre of the city – adding that political pressure on President Sisi appeared to be working for now.

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