The US President, Donald Trump, He caused a sensation in New York during his speech at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, referring specifically to Greece and the rates of foreign prisoners.
“According to the Council of Europe, in 2024 almost 50% of prisoners in German prisons were foreign nationals or immigrants. In Austria, the number was 53%. In Greece, 54%. In Switzerland, 72%. When your prisons are filled with the so -called asylum seekers who repay goodness with the crime, it’s time to end the failed open border experiment. You have to finish it now, “the US president said, provoking discussions and reactions.
The details of the Ministry of Citizen Protection
Since July 2019, prison jurisdiction has passed from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Citizen Protection. According to ministry sources, “55% of prisoners in Greek prisons are foreigners. Mostly they are Albanians, Algerian, Moroccan, Afghan, Pakistani, Turks, Iraqis and Georgians. “
Based on the latest official items of General Secretariat for Criminal Policytoday the number of detainees in all prisons in the country is up to 12.926 people. Of them, about 7,000 are foreigners and 6,000 Greeks.
Eurostat: One in five inmates in the EU is a foreign
According to Eurostat, in 2023 one in five inmates in the European Union (20.6%) was a foreigner in the country of detention – a percentage almost identical to 2022 (20.4%).
Differences between Member States are large:
-
The highest percentage was recorded in Luxembourg (75.7%),
-
Followed or Cyprus (56.7%) and the Greece (54.3%),
-
While lower rates meet in Romania (1.1%), Bulgaria (2.9%) and Latvia (3.5%).