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GREECE: FRONTEX: Mytilene / Greece: European Border Agency FRONTEX invades place of solidarity

09 September 2013

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"The people of the Greek island Lesvos (Mytilene) are famous for their solidarity to the refugees arriving on the island. In December 2012 the solidarity organized by the network "Village of Alltogether" was in the focus of international media as a seldom example of good practice showing that human rights in reality are a matter of the people and not of politicians and their empty words...European Border Agency FRONTEX, has prepared themselves to occupy two rooms in the main building with the aim to open an office for their so called “screening”. ... On the 6th of September 2013 two FRONTEX-officers from Italy and Sweden expulsed a family with small children and a pregnant woman from the rooms they were hosted in order to occupy and re-use these rooms as their offices introducing themselves as European Border Police."

See the full text: Mytilene / Greece: European Border Agency FRONTEX invades place of solidarity (pdf)

See also: Statewatch visit to the Pikpa Centre for asylum-seekers in Mytilene
Tony Bunyan (Statewatch Director) and Ann Singleton (Co-Chair of Statewatch) visited the Pikpa Centre in early April 2013, an open facility run by volunteers in a building provided by the municipality. A significant number of the people in Pikpa today have been there for 17 or 18 days, not knowing if they will ever see a lawyer, be able to claim asylum, or move out of the Centre.

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