Migration: Arrest and detention of immigrants to “get” the message in Libya – why the government hardens its stance

Can his family Haftar to want yesterday through his son’s visit to the President of the Greek Community of Benghazi pass the message that he has no negative option over the country, after The “fiasco” with the postponement of the visit of the European delegationhowever, the government has decided to adhere to a hard line and in fact implement the “Evros model” in the Libyan Sea, due to the continued flows on Gavdos and Cretan coasts.

The situation of all recent days marked the end of the tolerance, as for the Maximus Palace it was a given that the situation could not be addressed by the conventional logic of managing the situation.

From the House step the Kyriakos Mitsotakis coded yesterday three government interventions. In the first place, the suspension for three months (at least) the possibility of asylum request for those who arrive from Libya in our country, resulting in these immigrants treated as prisoners and led to closed centers inland eg. In Malacasa’s CT.

To this end, the immigrants They will not “relocate” to Crete, but will be directly driven to the port of Lavrion and from there they will be divided into structures where they will not have the right to exit or use a mobile.

This is an option that aims to make their stay in Greece a powerful disincentive to make the trip from Tobruk, especially when it comes to a expensive choice.

Finally, the government announced the creation of at least one closed structure and at Cretemost likely in Kastelli Heraklion. The details will be discussed at a meeting that will take place on Friday at the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum with the participation of local officials in Crete.

“The Greek government sends a message of determination that the passage to Greece is closing. And he sends it to all the traffickers and to all their potential customers, that the money they spend may be completely lost, because it will be much more difficult than it was to be able to reach Greece by the sea, ” Libya, stating that the PASOK government had the opportunity on George Papandreou to agree to an EEZ agreement with the Tripoli government, but the opportunity was.

Political weighting

It is a given that the hardening of the Greek government’s stance will not be without reactions on the European side, but The behavior of the Happy Government And the limited capacity for the government was the “occasion” for the government to “press” the measures under discussion. As the accelerator, the flow of flows from Libyan side, along with the overloading of Crete cities, in which there was no structure for the management of immigrants coming.

At the same time, they also made political weighting, realizing that the extension of these ugly images would be a message of weakness of the organized state, at a time when the migratory It “tests” the social cohesion of many European societies. It is also recalled that the government had earned political points when it had repelled the “hybrid threat” in Evros in March 2020 and in this case there was no room for another time.

In a move with interesting semantics even the Minister of Migration and Asylum Thanos Plevris He posted the up -to -date government’s decisions with a tweet in English, apparently wanting to understand the message to candidates for “passing” and to traffickers. After all, the Greek government is not overlooked by the fact that there are millions of immigrants from African countries in Libya currently in Europe.