Hania officials urge state action as migrant tensions rise in Crete

[InTime News]

Local authorities successful Hania person called connected the authorities to instantly take complaint of managing migration flows connected the island, pursuing unrest astatine the overcrowded hosting installation successful Agia.

At an bonzer gathering astatine Hania Regional Unit, Deputy Regional Governor Nikos Kalogeris, Hania Mayor Panagiotis Simandirakis, determination officials, police, seashore defender officers and representatives of the Crete Development Organization warned that the makeshift installation successful Agia, presently hosting much than 1,100 migrants, is unsuitable and operating beyond capacity.

Clashes betwixt migrants connected Tuesday highlighted the risks, with Kalogeris noting that “a assemblage of a thousand radical is not easy suppressed if it revolts.” He urged the transfer of astatine slightest 200 radical to the mainland and the instauration of a new, open-type facility.

Health officials reported cases of dermatological and respiratory problems among residents, while staff person abandoned the ιστοσελίδα citing information concerns. Authorities stressed the request for contiguous nationalist readying to relieve Hania, which has received implicit 60% of Crete’s migrant arrivals this year.

Earlier, the authorities said it would acceptable up two temporary migrant detention centers connected Crete to header with the spike successful arrivals from North Africa. The determination followed a gathering betwixt Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Crete Regional Governor Stavros Arnaoutakis successful Athens.