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Massive police raid against sans-papiers started with more than 300 arrests on March 29th, 2012

Published on March 30, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , .

The announced “pogrom in Athens” started yesterday with massive police forces in the centre of the capital. More than 200 migrants were arrested near by Omonia Square, from the streets, squares, houses and shops. Police forces invaded more homes also in Kipseli and arrested street vendors near the university buildings in Patission street and elswhere. This massive sweep operation and its promotion in the Greek news as top issue of the pre-election campaigns is the most publicised repression against migrants of the last period.
The police has aimed to raid approx. 140 buildings where migrants live, because they perceive them as “hygiene bombs” and a “threat to public health”. The police raids will also focus on empty old houses where migrants found provisory shelter.
As the Minister of Citizen Protection said: “This attempt for the
η προσπάθεια που γίνεται για την ελάφρυνση του κέντρου της Αθήνας, για την αποκατάσταση της τάξης, για την προστασία της κοινωνικής ειρήνης στις γειτονιές του κέντρου της Αθήνας, είναι μία ολοκληρωμένη επιχείρηση.

TV News top issue these days is the pre-election propaganda concerning “illegal migration”. See video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB4IpcpBHko

Greek “Hospitality”: 30 new huge detention centres and massive police raids

Published on March 28, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

The Minister of Citizen Protection is planning to “clean” the city centre of the Greek capital from the immigrants and “host” them in the new detention centres he has announced to create in all over Greece in the near future.

Today he had a meeting with the Greek Police and announced massive sweep operations starting tomorrow. We already see a massive police presence in public space and daily arrest all over Athens. The question is, how can the police raids we already observe every day become more huge and worse?

see in Greek

No access to asylum in Greece

Published on March 27, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

A young sans-papiers collapsed when the people were trying to enter the aliens police


While an increase in the numbers of asylum recognition rate are proudly presented refugees have no access to asylum in Greece.
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Sweep operations on the rise and creation of 30 new mass detention centres announced

Published on March 26, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

Mr. Chrysohoidis, Minister of Citizen Protection, announced today the creation of thirty new type detention centres for immigrants in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense. They are called “reception centres” or “centres of hospitality” in the dominant discourse although they are clearly to become huge prisons.

The minister had a meeting with the governors of 10 Greek prefectures to ask them if they agree to build detention centers in their areas and if they have specific facilities to offer for this purpose. Anyway, as he said, these prisons will be build even without the agreement of the prefectures. Throughout the last days and since the announcement of the creation of such a prison in Kozani the local politicians and the society had protested against these plans.

He also assured that the EU funding for these centers will be 250 million euros for the three following years.

For each detention centre a new independent police department will be created with personnel of 150 new police officers and also 70 private security men for every 250 immigrants detained.

According to the plan, each new detention center will be divided into four sectors with a capacity for 250 detained immigrants, if there are 1,000 immigrants in each of the 30 prisons announced it makes up a total of 30,000!

The new detention centres have become one of the main issues of concern today in Greek news which was dominated by a racist propaganda on “the problem of illegal immigration” constructing immigrants as a threat to security, public health etc.

see press release of minister in Greek

New video-reportage on the situation of the sans-papiers in Patras

Published on March 25, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , .

by Enri Canaj and Γιάννης Παπαδόπουλος

Deportation flight from Athens to Dakar, Tiflis and Lahore

Published on March 24, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , .

On March 23 31 migrants were deported from Greece to Dakar, Tiflis and Lahore. Among them were 25 from Bangladesh, 5 from Georgia and one from Nigeria.

Protest at the Detention Center in Edirne, Turkey: The border is the problem!

Published on March 21, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , .

Press release of the Transborder Conference that took place in Istanbul 14-18.3.12 at the detention center of Edirne close to the Turkish/Greek border

The border is the problem!

The new Edirne Detention Centre


We are standing outside a new, luxurious building. But this building is not built for a social purpose.
On the contrary, it is a detention center, a prison for people who have committed no crime;
people who were arrested while crossing the borders. Migrants are all the more criminalized,
described and treated as a menace by the Governments and the authorities.
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Immigrants detention camp to be created in Kozani

Published on March 20, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , .

On March 19, the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrisochoidis announced in the Greek Cabinet that a new immigrants’ detention camp will be created in Kozani (Neapoli).
 The camp will be under the authority of Greek police and will be located in a former military base. The camp’s capacity will be 1,000 inmates.
 It is planned to be ready by the end of April.
This will be the first official detention camp according to the new law of 2011 in Greece. The responsibility for guarding the perimeter of the detention camp will be given to the Greek police, but according to the Greek newspaper Vima Online, a private security company will be contracted for the guarding of the interior.
The local population reacted immediately by protesting against the “transfer of the problem” from the urban centres to other cities.

As the Vice-Minister of Citizen Protection Mr. Oikonomou said about the creation of 14 new detention centres in the very near future:

There will be no other solution to illegal migration than detention centres!

Three other detention centres are planned to be in Thessaloniki and at least two in Attika region. According to Minister of Citizen Protection Mr. Chrisochidis old military camps will be used and also former buildings of the Ministry of Education and other Ministries. The Minister while trying to convince the local population of its benefits said:

The aim is to support the local work force with new jobs. Soon enough the mayors who are now protesting against the construction of detention centres in their cities will be asking us to build also one in their region.

Vima Online (news in Greek)
Epikaira (news in Greek)
Kathimerini (news in english)

seasonal workers protest against exploitation in Argos

Published on March 17, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , .

On Thursday 15th of March a group of 40 workers from Pakistan and other countries protested against the exploitation they suffer from in the orange harvest. Since two years the workers of Koutroufini Orange production are unpaid and without health insurance.

The company owes us a total of 60.000 Euro!

news in greek

Small video-documentary about Patras and Igoumenitsa 2011 – by Gabriel Pecot

Published on March 12, 2012 in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

Watch the short documentary “Hellas-Hell” about Patras and Igoumenitsa (Spanish subs)

http://www.hellas-hell.eu/