Drunken American sailors beat 15-year-old girls in Crete

Two girls have filed complaints that they were attacked on Saturday night by two drunken Americans who punched and slapped them, Protothema reported.

In total, at least three incidents in Chania, Souda Bay, where the US naval base s located, have occurred in just a few days due to drunken crew members of the USS Gerald R. Ford. Specifically, drunken Americans got into a fight with each other in the restroom of the town's Municipal Garden.

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford with 6,000 Marines on board arrived in Souda Bay in Crete on December 2. The U.S. flagship was sent to the eastern Mediterranean Sea in October amid an escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict