Europe, just Shame on you!
Idomeni
9,428 of then are on the islands of Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Kastellorizo, Kos, Leros and Kalymnos.
9,623 are hosted in the region of Attica.
The refugees at Idomeni camp (Greek-Fyrom buffer zone) are approximately 12,000 refugees.
The new arrivals in the last 24 hours reached 2,373.
Port of Piraeus

Glyfada, old Athens airport

Many refugees don't reach the border -- and if they do, they are bused back to Athens. Across the Greek capital, refugee tents, lines of drying washing and clusters of homeless people have been springing up in unexpected places. The United Nations Refugee Agency has filled a baseball stadium, built for the 2004 Olympic Games, with white tents. an ironic legacy for the sporting event..
Victoria, Athens downtown

the razor Europe
the razor Europe
Oh, really...?
said on March11, 2016
- Macedonia joined Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia in closing its borders to refugees. published in Immigration News
- . Hungary has already blocked the way and is arresting asylum seekers who try to cross. Albania and Bulgaria are possible options for the 13,000 migrants trapped at the Greek-Macedonian border.
- But the terrain in Albania — mountainous and wild — is hard to cross and riddled with local mafias extorting and beating travelers.
- In Bulgaria, the border is relatively well guarded, and authorities there have been arresting allegedly beating migrants who try that route.”
That may push refugees to try a still more dangerous says r The Washington Post

The European Union has decided to offer assistance in the borders of Albania with Greece.(March 9, 2016) Assistance will also spread to Greece's northern borders with FYROM and Albania.The statement issued by the European Commission said the aim of enforcement is to ensure identification and register refugees proceedure, security checks and adequate welcoming capacity.
Greece surprised

The Balkan route taken by hundreds of thousands of migrants to Europe
is going to be closed, EU leaders "would declare today Monday March 7" , at the Summit with Turkey in Brussels, diplomats and officials had said since Sunday March 6,after a meeting of the EU ambassadors , whose statement — would to be approved by leaders on the next day, March 7—“Irregular flows of migrants along the Western Balkans route are coming to an end; this route is now closed,” was the conclusion ,according to a copy of the document ... Despite the surprise of Alexis Tsipras and Angela Merkel on the days that followed, things were done as said on this draft. Was the Greek government aware? find that documetn on our Greek2m eye blog
the EU meeting
the deal

Deal strongly criticized by UN, rights groups

People fleeing persecution Not for sale.
“A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of the EU-Turkey deal Bill Frelick, refugee rights director at Human Rights Watch. “The parties failed to say how individual needs for international protection would be fairly assessed during the rapid-fire mass expulsions they agreed would take place.”

Urgency for Actions, says the @UNHCR, while #EU barters humans to #TurkishBlackmail
With increasing border restrictions across the Balkans, the UNHCR agency has early warned for the escalation of the situation into a humanitarian crisis similar to that on the Greek islands last autumn, and especially Lesvos .Find more on moodhackerblog


To Love him, to Love him not?

To Love him, Love him Not??
- Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, right, and Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras offer flowers to journalists, prior to their meeting in Izmir, Turkey, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Turkey and Greece were holding talks on bilateral issues but also to discuss the migrants crisis a day after EU leaders agreed in principle on the outlines of a possible deal with Turkey for the return of thousands of migrants to Turkey. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
- A Day after, March 9, Greece woke up irreversaly trapped by the refugees flows in razor borders in her own territory
- On March 10, Ankara's EU minister Volkan Bozkir announced that Turkey will not readmit refugees who have already reached Greek islands "
The message
The message

Visiting Athens, just 3 days before the EU deal on March 7, the European Council President Donald Tusk has warned potential migrants not to risk coming to Europe.
Speaking after talks with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visiting Athens, Tusk said unilateral actions by EU member states is hurting solidarity and must stop.
He emphasized straight , though:“I want to appeal to all potential illegal, economic, migrants wherever you are from. Do not come to Europe. Do not believe the smugglers. Do not risk your lives and your money, it is all for nothing,” he said.
There was a "Tusk Plan" !
There was a "Tusk Plan" !

“With that,” said Donald Tusk, president of the European council, with all the confidence of a magician at a circus, “we will close the western Balkans route.” It is a hubristic claim – but one that nevertheless reflects the new hardline agenda that much of Europe’s top brass hopes to push through during the migration summit between European and Turkish leaders.
As if by magic, Tusk and his allies seek to end the European refugee crisis in two clean movements. First, by rubber-stamping the closure of the FYROM-Greek border, Second, by strong-arming Turkey into readmitting most, if not all, of those who continue to land on the Greek islands in their thousands each day.
Tusk’s logic is straightforward. If the FYROM border can be shut, then the crisis can be contained in Greece. Even if Tusk’s plan has obvious moral implications – it risks undermining the 1951 refugee convention, which was one of the seminal human achievements of the post-Holocaust era – one can understand its practical appeal for European politicians, notes the guardian.
the mess
Greece
Mtg w/PM @Ahmet_Davutoglu. We have the opportunity to show we're facing the issues in our neighborhd #EUTurkey #EUCO pic.twitter.com/UTyNewREmh
— Alexis Tsipras (@tsipras_eu) March 7, 2016
Merkel on our side?

The Odd Couple: Merkel, Tsipras Fate Tied to EU Refugee Deal Both Merkel, 61, and Tsipras, 41, are benefiting from building up trust during the debt crisis and talk regularly, according to a person familiar with the chancellor’s strategy who asked not to be named discussing government matters.
What Turkey asked

EU-Turkey Summit's draft. Actions to end the #migrantcrisis #EUCO
Austria Clear enouph

#EUCO #Turkey - Doorstep #AT #Faymann "We have to be clear, this route is closed" #migrationEU #refugeecrisis http://nwsr.eu/dhqm
the alert
Public Health
Borders Control for tourists probable

checks on crusie ships and pleasure yachts
The recommendation provides for checks on cruise ships based on the crew and passenger list, and on pleasure yachts coming from third countries at a border crossing points
Tourism
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Terrorism threats

According to ELAS quantity of explosive (ammonite) weighing 205.5 kg was detected by police officers of the police department Kastellorizo.
The seized explosives were seized and placed was placed in plastic containers in premises used for the storage of waste.
the human no way out
Meet Fadi, the Syrian refugee offering free haircuts in Idomeni: https://t.co/R3CU7YokJMhttps://t.co/cMBIsYHfD8
— Ruptly (@Ruptly) March 6, 2016
then and now

Lesvos, Mytilene port,September 2015, By Harry Chun
Then and now
Was today's situation in Greece an avoidable result? Not easy to answer.
The reality
150.000 plus,to host

“Hundreds are arriving on a daily basis and Greece is expected to receive another 100,000 by the end of the month,” Avramopoulos told a conference in Athens, two days ahead of the crucial European Union summit on the refugee crisis with the participation of Turkey, where European leaders were aiming to press Ankara to take back economic migrants from Greece and reduce the flow of people across the Aegean Sea.
About 50,000 refugees had been stranded in Greece – according to a Red Cross estimate issued on Sunday – as Europe faces the greatest migration crisis in six decades.
Intended?

“Let more refugees stay in Greece,” says Berlin and Offers Athens Financial Support for Refugee Crisis
“Our highest priority right now is that more refugees stay in Greece,” a government insider was quoted as saying in the respected economic magazine Wirtschaftswoche .
Acknowledging that the Greek economy is too weak to handle the massive influx of arriving refugees, Germany has offered financial assistance to cash-strapped Greece to assist with the country’s efforts in handling thousands of daily refugee arrivals find that.
flash back Lesvos of Autumn '15 phenomenon, fatally replicating now all over Greece
In a city of 27.000 people, Mytilene, the capital of Lesvos, migrant and refugees
The social despair
The refugees' despair
the Bio terror
President of the Greek CDC, April 2015

Lesvos MP, September 2015

"The threats and errors have been underestimated"
John Zerdelis is an ex- govt.party MP of Lesvos, resigned from SYRIZA now candidate by Popular Unity .
An urine& feces open air city camp. September10, 2015

As a reult, the true EMERGENCY state in which the capital of Lesbos, Mytilene, has been found itself since the mid of August, (peak time of touristic period of the island, by the way) let the nightmarish situation day to day worsen and escalate.
This is the result in the city of Mytilene as of 2day, 9/ 9 /2015
No chemical toilets, no water AT ALL to wash hands during the night -and every night, no public water for the migrants to wash their hands during day and night, and also, public cleaning crews, even though oblidged to protect the local population and the Public Health village, did not seem to exist at all, for at least one week, when migrants' numbers in the town of Mytilene were more than double than the number of the city's population.
In less than a month, situation worsened so rapidly,that the isle's residents woke up on a huge urine &feces open air camp, their city. An Emergency shown to be out of Control and out of Response....
Worth noting the fact that polio virus spreads through the feces and that Syrian population is unvaccinated to Polio
the Real terror
ISIS between us, YES true No one is checked, anyway, why not?
Exclusive
information to Greek to me, talked of at least four ISIS suspects in
the city of Mytilene during the last four days. One of them is referred
to have been driving a car, playing ISIS music around the tents of the
Syrian refugees, identified by the Syrian due to the symbolism of wolds,
and special music tune “related to ISIS Propaganda songs”//// more
by Municipality's official proposal for the #Refugeescrisis, September 2015

Just ONE IN FIVE migrants claiming asylum are from Syria, EU figures show
Out of the astonishing 213,000 arrivals the EU logged between April and June, only 44,000 were fleeing the war-torn state.
the ID fake documents black market
For a piece of paper only

#Aegean#Gate2West
THIS IS THE #NoBorderControl
Migrants were not screened on the islands on the peak flows crisis early days in Lesvos and the Aegean islands, by fingerprint, Passport , Passport ID number, or even…..face control .
All of them, migrants and refugees are considered to be kind of the same.
Find more on our Special Story, Sepember 12, 2015
New! Fingerprints to be taken properly just now, Octobr16,2015

12 devices for documenting and comparing the fingerprints of arriving asylum seekers and migrants will be delivered by the German ambassador in Athens Peter Schoof to the Alternate Minister of Public Order Nikos Toskas
Τhe huge influx of refugees over the summer in the islands in the eastern Aegean, Greek authorities were unable to cope with the documentation procedure and had called for assistance from other abroad.
A #SetUpDelay by the #BlackMarket on #Papers2get
Hundreds are waiting since midnight to book a place in the queue,some're spending days here 4 papers #SyrianRefugees pic.twitter.com/pnOioKG8BX
— Luna Watfa (@luna_alabdalla) September 6, 2015
At the end,greek govnt solved papers issue in just 2 days without photos which's a must before! Weird.#SyrianRefugees pic.twitter.com/qiqYQ3Fz2l
— Luna Watfa (@luna_alabdalla) September 8, 2015
Papers in mytilini are being sold today which was forbidden yesterday .such a crazy thing indeed #SyrianRefugees pic.twitter.com/uyPVQ7JdYg
— Luna Watfa (@luna_alabdalla) September 7, 2015
Risks dramatically ignored

on the detections of illegal Border-crossing between BorderCrossing Points
- underlines that
- pointing that
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Greece doesn't know how many immigrants are in the country.
How many came, how many left
Where from, or where to.
The empathetic effect
The empathetic effect
In the rest of Greece
This is Greece. 10000 people today collected goods for the refugees while wealthy Europeans seal their borders pic.twitter.com/77EzkmzMGi
— george mastropavlos (@g_mastropavlos) March 6, 2016
When Tsipras introduced to Fayman the first refugee asking to stay in Greece
When Tsipras introduced to Fayman the first refugee asking to stay in Greece