Three Turkish migrants imprisoned after being arrested in Thessaloniki – New law applied

Three overseas nationals who were arrested for residing illegally successful Greece were sent to situation aft being convicted by the Thessaloniki Single-Member Misdemeanor Court nether the summary procedure.

Applying the caller provisions connected migration and amerciable enactment successful the country, the tribunal neither suspended nor converted their sentences, and frankincense they were taken to prison.

The defendants were of Turkish origin. Two were sentenced to 2 years successful prison, portion the third, a 19-year-old, was sentenced to 10 months, arsenic the mitigating origin of youthful property was recognized. In addition, each 3 were fined €5,000.

They refused to instrumentality to their country
The tribunal asked the defendants – arsenic required – whether they consented to instrumentality to their homeland and thereby person the execution of their condemnation suspended. However, each 3 refused and were taken to a correctional facility.

In their testimonies, the archetypal 2 stated that they had arrived successful Greece 3 days earlier and intended to scope Athens to statesman procedures for applying for governmental asylum, arsenic they claimed they had near Turkey for governmental reasons.

The 19-year-old, for his part, claimed helium had been successful Greece for the past week and had near his state for household reasons. He besides said helium had booked an assignment to use for asylum but was arrested earlier helium had the accidental to statesman the process.