Arnaoutakis: Agreement with Mitsotakis on the creation of two temporary stay facilities in Crete

The contented of migration flows, arsenic good arsenic the accommodation of migrants successful Crete, was discussed yesterday betwixt Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Regional Governor of Crete Stavros Arnaoutakis during their meeting.

In his statements, Mr. Arnaoutakis noted that what was agreed upon was the constitution of two impermanent enactment facilities, arsenic had primitively been proposed.

“What we agreed connected is that the 2 facilities we had initially mentioned indispensable beryllium built. We did not sermon a imperishable structure,” Arnaoutakis said, adding that migrants arriving—whose numbers person accrued successful caller days—“must beryllium transferred immediately, arsenic they cannot stay for specified a agelong play of time.”

Arnaoutakis besides referred to the difficult conditions successful the existing facilities, stressing their unsuitability, particularly erstwhile determination is simply a ample fig of migrants, which—as helium pointed out—leads to tension and different problems. He mentioned that helium had raised the contented with some Mr. Chrysochoidis and Mr. Plevris, highlighting challenges with the availability of security personnel, some seashore defender and police.

“They should person already been transferred, due to the fact that determination is simply a problem. What I raised besides acrophobic the radical liable for guarding the facilities from the Coast Guard and the Police. It’s not imaginable to person a 1000 radical and lone 5 oregon 10 guarding them,” Arnaoutakis said.

He added that conditions successful Agyia (Chania) and astatine the tract wherever migrants are being held successful Heraklion “are not humane, and determination are problems.” He further noted that successful Agyia, employees of the Crete Development Organization privation to halt going to enactment owed to information fears, adjacent for their lives, successful lawsuit of an incident.

Arnaoutakis stressed that 600 migrants volition beryllium transferred today, with efforts to relocate the remaining ones arsenic well.

“The cardinal contented is to forestall specified precocious migration flows from Libya,” helium clarified, concluding that aft his treatment with the premier curate and the ministers, helium believes that “there volition beryllium improvement.”

Source: ANA-MPA