Improved is the situation with flows illegal immigrants to Crete from Libya as according to the Minister of Migration and Asylum, Thanos Plevrisafter the amendment has been voted on To stop asylum applications examination “In 25 days, 1/3 of people who arrived in the first 8 days of July have arrived on the island.”
“On the first week of July that did not have the decision to suspension of asylum In 8 days (from July 1-9), 2462 have entered.
According to him, this change is due to ‘to 3 factors:
1. There has been a strong diplomacy by the Foreign Minister for cooperation with the Libyan authorities and at the moment it seems to be better
2. There was a clear message. In the first week of pressing flows there were messages on mobile phones that the trip to Greece was safe and the border is open. Those who entered after the amendment are not guests, they are prisoners in prison and so the message was sent
3. The weather but this is auxiliary because during this time there were at least 10-15 days of summer. “
“We do not complain because the circuits can adjust their tactics and we must be prepared. There are still inputs but have been limited. According to sources from Libya, there are 3 million people on the coast of the country and a corresponding number in Egypt. If we allowed a flow of 1,000 a day to Crete this had an invasion features. ” The Minister of Migration and Asylum.
As he explained, “we respect the asylum right to those who are entitled to it, but from the Libyan corridor, 60% coming from safe asylum countries and 90% were 18-30 years old, only 10% were children and women. We are basically talking about economic immigrants who want to enter Europe illegally. “