“The images that we all remember from 2015 to 2019 are already part of the past,” he was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
Greece was the main point through which more than a million asylum seekers entered Europe in 2015 and its islands in the Aegean Sea are the main port of call for people arriving through Turkey in search of a better life in Europe.
The crisis in Afghanistan after the reconquest of power by the Taliban raises fears of a new wave of migration.
The camps are fenced in with barbed wire, have surveillance cameras, X-ray scanners and magnetic gates that are locked at night.
They also have running water, toilets and more security, which did not exist in the previous facilities, sadly famous for their overcrowding and deplorable living conditions.
The country opened the first such camp on the island of Samos in September and plans to open another two, on the islands of Lesbos and Chios.
Several humanitarian organizations criticized that these centers are built in isolated places and restrict the movements of refugees and asylum seekers.
A dozen of these NGOs, including Amnesty International, criticized the country for continuing “its harmful policies based on preventing (displacement) and containing refugees and asylum seekers.”
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