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| Migrants crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, January 2016. Wikipedia |
Greece has announced further measures to keep illegal immigrants away from its own coasts. The Ministry of Defense wants to make it more difficult for migrants with “floating protection systems” to get ashore.
ATHENS: On Wednesday, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the ministry published a tender for the installation of appropriate countermeasures to be used in an emergency against illegal migrants heading to Greece with boats. Specifically, it is about the use of “barriers or networks” with a length of three kilometers each.
According to the Greek authorities, these should protrude half a meter from the water and be provided with flashing lights. The total cost is therefore around half a million euros.
There had recently been mass protests against the flood of asylum seekers in the Greek islands. According to the Ministry of Civil Protection, 7 200 asylum seekers currently live among 6 500 locals in Samos. There are currently around 42 000 immigrants on the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros.
Last autumn , Greece tightened its asylum policy under the new conservative government. Among other things, Athens has been sending 30 rejected asylum seekers back to Turkey every day since the beginning of...
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3 comments:
Invaders should be eliminated by whatever means necessary.
HMMMMMMMMMMMM A floating protection system HUH. I thought that is what a Navy was for. Sink them in Mid-Adriatic or Mediterranean Seas and DO NOT RESCUE THE SURVIVORS.
Who is paying for those large inflatable boats they use?
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