Foto: Marily Stroux[/caption]
On Friday, 11th of August 2018 some vandals completely destroyed the memorial for the dead at the European borders on Lesvos.
It was standing since October 2013 in Thermi next to the fishermens club. Reminding the death of people fleeing war and trying to reach safety in Europe. The memorial was set up also to thank the fishermen who risk their lives in saving people in the sea and collecting dead bodies. We went there once a year since then, together with survivors and friends.
We are disgusted by the brutality of those destroying the memorial now for the third time and their missing respect to dead humans and the fishermen.
We will reinstall the names and dates in this place. It is not possible through acts of violence to erase the facts and the memory to the dead.
We will continue welcoming people who arrive seeking safety. We will continue to finally tear down the borders and to build another, a welcoming Europe.
W2eu
Memorial October 2017 in Thermi:
In English
In Greek
Memorial in April 2018 in Skala Sikaminias:
http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2018/05/02/memorial-24th-of-april-2018/ information with, about and for refugees in Greece
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Foto: Marily Stroux[/caption]
On Friday, 11th of August 2018 some vandals completely destroyed the memorial for the dead at the European borders on Lesvos.
It was standing since October 2013 in Thermi next to the fishermens club. Reminding the death of people fleeing war and trying to reach safety in Europe. The memorial was set up also to thank the fishermen who risk their lives in saving people in the sea and collecting dead bodies. We went there once a year since then, together with survivors and friends.
We are disgusted by the brutality of those destroying the memorial now for the third time and their missing respect to dead humans and the fishermen.
We will reinstall the names and dates in this place. It is not possible through acts of violence to erase the facts and the memory to the dead.
We will continue welcoming people who arrive seeking safety. We will continue to finally tear down the borders and to build another, a welcoming Europe.
W2eu
Memorial October 2017 in Thermi:
In English
In Greek
Memorial in April 2018 in Skala Sikaminias:
http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2018/05/02/memorial-24th-of-april-2018/
Foto: Marily Stroux[/caption]
On Friday, 11th of August 2018 some vandals completely destroyed the memorial for the dead at the European borders on Lesvos.
It was standing since October 2013 in Thermi next to the fishermens club. Reminding the death of people fleeing war and trying to reach safety in Europe. The memorial was set up also to thank the fishermen who risk their lives in saving people in the sea and collecting dead bodies. We went there once a year since then, together with survivors and friends.
We are disgusted by the brutality of those destroying the memorial now for the third time and their missing respect to dead humans and the fishermen.
We will reinstall the names and dates in this place. It is not possible through acts of violence to erase the facts and the memory to the dead.
We will continue welcoming people who arrive seeking safety. We will continue to finally tear down the borders and to build another, a welcoming Europe.
W2eu
Memorial October 2017 in Thermi:
In English
In Greek
Memorial in April 2018 in Skala Sikaminias:
http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2018/05/02/memorial-24th-of-april-2018/ Uprisings in Moria on 24th October, EASO-containers burned down once again
Already for weeks, tensions on the Aegean islands run high after the Greek government announced to open three more so-called “hot-spots” only for “pre-removals” on the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Kos. They are, in fact, deportation prisons. Local residents and municipalities oppose these plans. At the same time, the atmosphere within the camps is boiling over. After months of waiting, the entire time threatened to be deported to Turkey, people have repeatedly protested against the imprisonment in inhumane conditions. It has been announced that, from November onward, weekly deportations to Turkey for 200 persons each time will take place, coordinated by Frontex. This would turn Lesvos into a deportation hub.
Continue reading 'Lesvos turns into a deportation hub to Turkey'
Since 2013, Welcome to Europe (w2eu) and Youth Without Borders (JOG) organise journeys for young refugees, to make it possible for them to return to the place where they had first reached Europe: The Island of Lesvos/Greece. This year, the ‘back to the border’ journey turned into a horror trip, especially, for all of us who were without European identity cards. Twice, the police and coast guard didn’t let us take the ferry to Piraeus (Athens) and leave the island as they said they had to re-check the asylum seekers cards for their genuinity – a paper issued by the Greek government itself. We observed dozens of people who were pulled out of the passengers queues at the airport while providing for passports or Greek aliens documents and dozens more who were unsuccessfully trying to leave from the island from the port along with us even though some of them were living and working in Greece for years. Continue reading 'Frontex’s Prison Island Lesvos: Apartheid in the tourist paradise'
On Tuesday we finally got the guide! We were really happy and started to hand out them at the same day. We went to Moria and Kara Tepe and gave it to the people we met. This year it is much more difficult, we are not allowed to enter the camps and we can only reach some refugees. If we can speak with them they are happy to get informations – like we know it from the last years. In the last time there have been organisations which tried to hand out bibles and religious things. Because of that there is a big mistrust against everybody who is handing out paper. In Kara Tepe we have not been allowed to hand out the guides between the cantinas which are in front of the camp and where the people are sitting. We had to stand close to the dangerous road – outside the ground which belongs to the camp. In Moria they check identities of two of us – the cantinas are on the other side of the road, so that we could stay there and continue.
When we started to hand out the guides we realised that this year the French version is missing because there are many more people from (western) Africa here in Lesvos. Many of them are French speakers. We will try to speed up the French translation to at least have an online version.
What is really clear this year: everything is controlled very much. Many big NGOs are working in the camps, networks like us are not welcome and they don‘t let us in. This was really frustrating, although we met people, spoke with them and spread the guides.
You can find the online-versions here:
Arabic: http://w2eu.info/greece.ar.html
Farsi: http://w2eu.info/greece.fa.html
English: http://w2eu.info/greece.en.html
PDFs in all languages:http://w2eu.info/greece.en/articles/greece-guide.en.html