At times the refugee camps were extremely overcrowded. In the meantime, the situation has eased significantly. This is also due to the increased patrols of the Coast Guard – and the pushbacks.
According to the latest information from the Ministry of Migration, the situation in the reception camps on the Greek islands has continued to ease. No warehouse is therefore overcrowded any more.
On Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos, the Athens Ministry registered 4,490 people at the end of September. In 2020, the number was over 40,000 over several months.
The situation is much better on the island of Samos, where a new warehouse has been opened. The people there now all lived in container apartments and no longer in tents or self-made huts, reported the Greek state television.
Most of the migrants currently live on the island of Lesbos. In the tent camp at Kara Tepe (also Mavrovouni), designed to accommodate 8,000 people, according to the latest information from the Ministry of Migration in Athens, just under 3,100 people are still waiting. The camps on Chios, Leros and Kos are almost empty. There are only 300, 143 and 88 people living there.
Athens has increased its coast guard patrols in the strait with Turkey in recent months. Boats with migrants on board are repeatedly pushed back to Turkey. These so-called pushbacks violate human rights, criticize aid organizations.
The Greek security forces remained “vigilant” despite the relaxation, said a coast guard officer of the German press agency. A new large influx of migrants like 2015 could not be stopped so easily, it said. At that time, within a few months, almost 900,000 migrants came by sea from Turkey to Greece and thus to the EU.
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