Monthly Archive for August, 2012

Migrants reverting to Aegean route?

Published on August 29, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , .

from eKathimerini

A crackdown on the influx of undocumented immigrants entering Greece via the land border with Turkey has apparently resulted in people smugglers changing their routes as increasing numbers of migrants are being intercepted on the islands of the Aegean, authorities say.

This month police and coast guard officers detained 146 undocumented immigrants on the islands of Symi, Farmakonisi, Samos and Lesvos, compared to 68 on the islands of the Dodecanese in the first half of this year. On Tuesday, 40 migrants — chiefly Afghans, Syrians and Palestinians — were stopped on Symi and 39 — mostly Afghans — on Farmakonisi.
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Irregular Migrants Face the Boot in Greece – by Apostolis Fotiadis (ips news)

Published on August 29, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , .

Irregular Migrants Face the Boot in Greece
By Apostolis Fotiadis

ATHENS, Aug 29 2012 (IPS) – A crackdown on irregular migration has entered its fourth week in Greece. The government is shutting the Greek-Turkish northeastern border across river Evros, and removing massive numbers of undocumented migrants from big urban centres into makeshift detention camps.

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Statisticians and magicians

Published on August 19, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

Statisticians and magicians
By Dimosthenis Papadatos – Anagnostopoulos
originally published in Greek in: Red Notebook

One out of five. These are the “illegals” that the Police discovered in the first 12 days of the (ongoing) “Zeus Xenios” sweep operation. And what does this ratio reveal to us?

First of all, the obvious: 6.344 persons were arbitrarily arrested, even though they legally reside in Greece and they have never committed any offence.
They were simply arrested because of the color of their skin – and probably on conviction that criminality does not exclusively apply to the “illegal” ones. In the end, those legally residing in the country are still aliens.
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more than 500 fascist attacks against migrants in the last six months!!!!

Published on August 13, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

While the police is operating a huge sweep in Athens and Evros since August 2nd, racist attacks are getting more. Migrants communities speak of more than 500 hate crimes in the last six months and an organised wave of hate crimes in the last days.
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Another racist attack: Iraqi refugee dies after being stabbed in Athens centre

Published on August 12, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed

A 19-year-old Iraqi died in an Athens hospital on Sunday after being stabbed late on Saturday night by five unknown persons riding motorcycles, police said. The assailants had earlier targeted two other immigrants, one from Romania and one from Morocco, who managed to escape.

ekathimerini (in english)

deportation flight

Published on August 11, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , .

on august 10, 2012 another 32 persons were deported from athens. among them: 4 chinese, 1 armenian, one lithouanian, 2 rumanians, one sierra leonian and 23 albaniands.

shocking images: the sweep operation in Athens continues on August 9, 2012

Published on August 9, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , .


the images remind of other times….

Greek police released this video of todays sweep operation in the early morning hours at Larissis Railway Station in Athens:

In a press release of August 10 the police summed up that amongst others within the frame of the operation “Xenios Zeus”:

– 6.690 migrants were arrested
– 1.555 were detained because they were lacking legal residence papers
– 52 private houses were searched

and by the economic police:

– 103 shops were controlled
– 23 brothels were controlled, 48 persons were arrested and 22 were ordered administrative deportation
– Another 172 street sex workers were arrested

Massive sweep operation in Athens since August 2, 2012

Published on August 5, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

Greek police evict immigrants from Athens

Greek police arresting women and children


Following the operation “Xenos Zeus” Greek police arrested on Saturday 4, August 2012 in Athens 4.900 persons of which 1.130 were brought in for questioning. The police in a press release of the same day claimed that “national survival” was at stake for debt-choked Greece. The aim of the operation was “to send them back to their countries of origin, close the borders and ensure that Athens returns to being a lawful city with a quality of life,” police spokesman Christos Manouras said. 88 of the arrested are planned to be deported on Sunday August 5 in the night from Athens airport. The majority of them are from Pakistan.
Operation Xenios Zeus, ironically named after the name of the king of the ancient Greek gods in his role as protector of guests, mobilised 2,000 police in Athens and another 1,800 on Greece’s eastern border with Turkey. Continue reading ‘Massive sweep operation in Athens since August 2, 2012’

NEWS: Greece Border Controls Toughened Over Potential Influx Of Syrian Refugees

Published on August 1, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , .

The Huffington Post, 31 march 2012

ATHENS, Greece
Greece is quadrupling the number of guards at its border with Turkey and boosting other defenses in part because of a potential
influx of Syrian refugees, a government minister said Monday.
Greece is the busiest entry point for illegal immigrants trying to reach the European Union. Turkey, meanwhile, is hosting thousands of Syrians who have been fleeing their country’s civil war. Continue reading ‘NEWS: Greece Border Controls Toughened Over Potential Influx Of Syrian Refugees’