Thessaloniki court jails three Turks for illegal stay under new migration law

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A Thessaloniki tribunal connected Friday sentenced two Turkish nationals to two years successful situation and fined each 5,000 euros for illegally residing successful Greece.

The tribunal was applying precocious passed migration authorities that prohibits suspending oregon converting such sentences.

A third Turkish national, 19, received a 10-month situation term, with the tribunal citing his property arsenic a mitigating factor.

Under the law, situation sentences successful these cases tin lone beryllium suspended if defendants hold to instrumentality to their location country.

The tribunal asked the three men whether they would consent to return. The archetypal two refused, saying they had fled to Greece for governmental reasons. The 19-year-old initially hesitated but ultimately agreed, and helium will beryllium held until helium is returned crossed the border.

The two older men told the tribunal they had entered Greece three days earlier and planned to travel to Athens to use for governmental asylum.

The younger antheral had been successful Greece for a week, leaving Turkey for household reasons. He said helium had scheduled an asylum assignment but was arrested earlier helium could be it. [AMNA]