Plevris: Permanent migrant facility to be created in Crete, elimination of flows for those not eligible for asylum

Minister of Migration Policy and Asylum Thanos Plevris spoke astir the caller arrivals of migrants to Crete. He stressed that connected the 1 hand, the elimination of flows from warfare zones—citing arsenic an illustration Egyptians, who antecedently made up astir 70% of arrivals—is wide grounds that the strict measures implemented person been effective.

On the different hand, helium noted: “The information that flows present travel chiefly from countries whose nationals person a beardown accidental of being granted asylum creates a problem. Yes, we person constricted the inflows of amerciable migrants, but not those from countries specified arsenic Sudan, oregon perchance Palestinians, who tin get and use for asylum.”

The curate emphasized the concern successful Crete, where, helium said, “sites person been cleared and those not entitled to asylum are kept successful closed facilities awaiting return.” At the aforesaid time, helium announced that a imperishable reception installation is being planned connected the island, since “40% of flows into the state present hap via Crete.”

Mr. Plevris besides spoke astatine magnitude astir Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s gathering contiguous with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan successful New York. As helium pointed out, “In the Eastern Aegean determination is practice with Turkey, which has led to a 50% simplification successful flows. However, Ankara is not cooperating connected the contented of returns.”

Regarding Syrian refugees, the curate said that a caller section is opening, arsenic “those who received asylum owed to persecution by the Assad authorities tin nary longer warrant retaining exile status, but for minorities who proceed to beryllium persecuted.” He added that this contented volition beryllium raised some successful Mr. Mitsotakis’s gathering with the Turkish president and successful his discussions with the president of Syria.

“Exhumation is simply a substance for the judiciary”
Asked astir the hunger onslaught by the begetter of a unfortunate of the Tempi obstruction disaster, Mr. Plevris stressed that the authorities afloat respects the rights of the families, but “the determination connected a imaginable exhumation lies exclusively with the judiciary,” adding that “it is not a substance for authorities intervention.”

Commenting connected Panos Routsis’s hunger strike—he is the begetter of Denis, who died successful the Tempi tragedy—the Health Minister reiterated that portion the authorities respects the relatives and their rights, the exhumation of the kid “is a substance solely for the judiciary.”

“He is requesting the exhumation successful bid to shed airy connected aspects that whitethorn not person been afloat investigated. The close to exhumation falls nether the jurisdiction of the courts, and the authorities cannot intervene,” Mr. Plevris said.

He besides noted that the Supreme Court clarified that, successful the lawsuit a petition is submitted, the judiciary volition measure whether the conditions for an exhumation are met. “This is not an evasion by the authorities but respect for the relation of the judiciary,” helium added.

The curate besides referred to a nationalist memorial abstraction for the victims of Tempi, stressing the request for a chiseled tract abstracted from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. “The abstraction successful beforehand of the monument is dedicated to the fallen of the homeland and should not beryllium utilized for protests. However, we respect the symptom of the relatives and their mobilizations, which punctual america each of the nationalist tragedy,” helium said.

Finally, helium noted that the Municipality of Athens could instrumentality initiatives for a monument oregon memorial tract for the victims, ensuring respect for some representation and the families’ demands. Mr. Plevris emphasized that the authorities afloat understands the father’s symptom and his request for exhumation, but the process indispensable proceed strictly done judicial channels.