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After the eviction of the mountain settlement in Igoumenitsa now refugees are threatened by police raids in Patras

Following the huge eviction of the jungles of Igoumenitsa at the 9th of June, Patras became the second war region in the governments cruel fight against the sans-papiers who are trying to leave the country. The government seems to set a clear sign that the ports of exit towards Italy are now a no-go for refugees and migrants. Will the Apartheid ruling Igoumenitsa come to Patras now? It seems so.

We have no place to stay anymore. We have to sleep at the seaside under the sky. The police is coming everyday to hunt us in order that we leave Patras. We have been hunted in Komunisia before. We have been hunted at the border,in Athens, at work… One by one we get crazy now. Some of us try to leave Greece back to Turkey. But they don´t let us go there too. They hunt us again and again. Now one of my friends got lost in Evros while he was trying to cross the river in the direction of Turkey. We believe he died. In one or two days we will be all crazy!

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12.05.11: Police raid in the ‘trains’ of St. Dyonisios, Patras port

The municipality of Patras destroyed in a recent police raid the train shelter of migrants in St. Dyonisios, opposite to the port of Patras. They left behind the migrants, who will have to sleep under the stars of the sky without any protection in the following nights. The police invaded the area of the train company due to the ‘inhuman living conditions’ of the migrants and for reasons of ‘public health’. The hypocracy of the state continues in the name of ‘law and order’.

Mass Readmission of 81 refugees from Italy to Patras / Greece – 20.04.2011

Berlusconi is “cleaning his backyard”
As far as we know, Italy readmitted for the first time refugees via the sea way and in a great number from the inland of the country to Greece. 81 sans-papiers from war torn countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq, women, minors and other vulnerable persons were arrested on their way through Italy and towards the European “golden” North, deported by ship to Patras and from there transferred to Athens.
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Car hits Afghan refugee in Patras

Another accident in Patras at the 23rd of March 2011:

A young Afghan refugee while trying to jump on a truck on the main road to the port of Patras fell on the street an was hit by the following car that could not react quickly enough in order to avoid to crash into the refugee.
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«Αγκυροβολημένοι» στο λιμάνι της Πάτρας Εκατοντάδες λαθρομετανάστες και πρόσφυγες προσπαθούν να διαφύγουν στην Ιταλία

In: Kathimerini 12.09.2010
«Αγκυροβολημένοι» στο λιμάνι της Πάτρας
Εκατοντάδες λαθρομετανάστες και πρόσφυγες προσπαθούν να διαφύγουν στην Ιταλία

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