Local authorities on Greece’s Aegean islands have planned protests against the unabated inflow of migrants arrivals to the already overcrowded Greek islands each week.
Official figures have revealed that in the past four days alone, over 1,000 migrants have landed on the Greek islands, Ekathimerini reports.
The situation on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos, and Chios has deteriorated to such a point, that the mayors of the three islands and the Regional Governor Konstantinos Moutzouris are planning protests against the establishment of new asylum centers.
Last week, local residents of the island Leros, led by Mayor Michalis Kollias, obstructed a ferry carrying migrants from other islands to dock. The migrant reception center on Leros is currently home to 2,280 people. At the same time, 17,000 migrants are living at Moria reception center on Lesbos – a center originally designed to hold 2,800.
As each day passes, the situation on the islands becomes increasingly untenable. Last week, a 27-year-old Afghan woman died in a fire that began in a container home in the pop-up Kara Tepe migrant camp on Lesbos
Last Thursday, Greek authorities dismantled a group of criminal professionals who had been selling fake medical documents to migrants looking for a quick transfer to the mainland.
Police announced that three individuals – two lawyers and a psychologist – had produced 538 fake documents which falsely diagnosed migrants with post-traumatic stress disorder so they could be transferred to the Greek mainland. The group is said to have charged between 550 and 950 euros for each fake document.
Source : https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/12/greece-local-mayors-of-aegean-islands-plan-protests-against-the-relentless-inflow-of-migrants/
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