Arrivals surge on Crete

More than 220 migrants arrived connected Crete and Gavdos from Libya within 24 hours, Greek authorities said Friday, amid a 310% emergence successful arrivals to Crete this year.

Between Thursday nighttime and Friday evening, the seashore defender intercepted 4 boats: 1 carrying 25 migrants to Kaloi Limenes, 73 radical to Sfakia, 56 to Gavdos, and 61 to Palaiochora. Most were from Egypt and Sudan.

Officials reported different vessel precocious Friday with an unknown fig of passengers.

Migrants were transferred to a temporary installation successful Agia, Hania, where 342 radical person been held since August 15. Local authorities person requested transfers to mainland Greece, while detainees protested harsh conditions by refusing meals.

The arrivals travel arsenic Greece implements stricter migration policies.

A caller directive from Migration Minister Thanos Plevris replaces “irregular migration” with “illegal migration” successful authoritative documents, mandates up to 24 months’ detention for rejected asylum seekers, and sets situation sentences of two to 5 years for those staying illegally.

Officials accidental voluntary instrumentality is the lone way to debar imprisonment. New laws besides necessitate each caller arrivals to beryllium placed successful closed facilities, adjacent asylum applicants, who cannot record claims for a period under existent rules.