Over 1,000 illegal immigrants at the Agia structure in Crete as boats continue to arrive

The migratory flows of the past 2 days are causing “suffocation” successful Crete, arsenic hundreds of illegal immigrants person reached the island.

According to accusation from cretapost, passim the weekend, boats carrying dozens of illegals arrived connected the confederate seashore of Gavdos – conscionable hours isolated – with Frontex and the larboard authorities rushing to rescue them.

Agia astatine breaking point

As a result, hundreds of migrants were transferred to Agia for impermanent accommodation, which has created galore problems.

Already, 348 migrants person been staying determination for 28 days, and owed to stalled procedures, they person not been relocated to different facilities successful the country.

The hundreds of migrants are surviving successful miserable conditions, with lone 2 showers and 1 toilet available. The aerial conditioning is insufficient for truthful galore people, and determination is simply a looming hazard of a nationalist wellness “time bomb.”

To this fig are present added the caller migrants who arrived “in accelerated succession” implicit the weekend, bringing the full fig of radical hosted astatine the tract to much than 1,100!

Selfies of the accomplishment successful Kaloi Limenes

The migratory flows did not stop, particularly successful Gavdos, but dozens of migrants besides arrived astatine midday successful Kaloi Limenes, arsenic reported by Creta24.

About 39 migrants reached Chrysostomos formation connected an inflatable vessel and disembarked connected their own.

In fact, arsenic soon arsenic they acceptable ft connected land, they captured the infinitesimal by taking selfies.

Authorities successful despair

According to cretapost, the agencies liable for hosting the migrants are successful despair.
“The situations we are experiencing are unprecedented and unbelievable. All power has been lost. We are astatine the mercy of circumstances,” stressed the lawman mayor, Eleni Zervoudaki, adding:
“There are migrants who person been successful Agia since August 18, and we bash not spot the authorities transferring them to different facilities. Now, with the caller influx of migrants, determination is simply a hazard that Agia could crook into a wellness clip bomb.”

Scenarios for transferring the migrants

In caller hours, the prevailing script is that the concern successful Agia whitethorn beryllium somewhat eased today, arsenic discussions are underway for respective migrants to depart from the facility.

However, the concern remains volatile, with section authorities demanding an contiguous solution to the occupation that has arisen.