Journey in the Balkans to meet exiles and groups supporting them
There are 4 "official" detention centres for foreigners in Greece, one on the island of Samos, near the Turkish coast, and two near the land border with Turkey, one in Athens. A fifth, Pagani on the island of Lesbos, was closed following the highlighting...
How to go out of Greece? It is difficult to cross in Igoumenitsa. Last night, a person has passed, and 6 were taken in the port and imprisoned. It's hard on the Greek side, with the systematic violence of the police and detention for an indefinite period,...
Many Greeks "choose" to work without social insurance. Either because employers prefer to hire people that do not require social insurance, either because the employer pays the employee's net pay and the employee who wants to have a social insurance should...
Morning meeting: a Kurd who has gone through Calais in late 2008 - early 2009. He recognizes me the first, but then I also do. He had managed to go to England, was expelled to Iraq, and he is back in Europe. This time, he would rather in France, but his...
Pour la version française du blog, cliquez ici With the closure of Europe to immigration, then the closing time of its maritime boundary to the south (southern Spain, Canary Islands, Southern Italy, Greek Islands), notably through the European agency...
On 3 May, the "Jungle slopes" was attacked by militants of the extreme right beside a demonstration. The police then started to prevent the exiles from entering the city, and to watch the bins so that they can not find food. 450 people were arrested during...
After the wave of violence and destruction of settlements in May (Athens, Igoumenitsa, but also the destruction of the camp in Patras installed in the disused station of Saint Dyonisios), raids and destruction have continued. June 9, the "Jungle slope"...
August 10, police arrested 49 exiled in the jungles near near the port. Two other police operations had taken place the previous day at the abandoned station Agios Andreas. Following these raids, the Greek railroad company removed the abandoned wagons...
In Igoumenitsa, the raids in spring have borne fruit. Of course, the exiles are still there, but less numerous, less visible, more isolated, more dependent on smugglers. While in February the smugglers could no longer control the comings and goings and...
The No Border Camp Siva Reka is an opportunity for me to return to Bulgaria, where I had not been back since 1992. The development is striking in 20 years. Bulgaria in 1992 was still the richest country in the Balkans after Greece, with facilities comparable...
Where there was a single state, Yugoslavia, in September there today which is a member of the European Union and the Schengen area, Slovenia, an acceding, Croatia, five others (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and what is officially called "Former...
Lack of opportunities in Greece, exacerbated by the deep crisis facing the country , strengthening controls making it more difficult passage to Italy by the Adriatic increasingly exiles pass through the Balkans to other European countries some stop for...
The repression against the exiles hardened in Serbia. The "Jungle" of Subotica, near the Hungarian border, was destroyed by police and arrested 150 people. Following protests from residents, the center of asylum seekers in Banja Koviljaca must be closed,...
Hungary has just amend its legislation on asylum expanding possibility of detention of asylum seekers for a period of six months, including families with children, anticipating the reform of the EU legislation on asylum and pushing its limits. This new...
UNHCR ( UN High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations ) funded a study on the reception of refugees in three countries which have in common to be intrance country of the European Union : Bulgaria, Poland and Slovakia. These three countries have in...
The Council of the European Union is to review the progress of Greece in the implementation of the National Plan of asylum reform and migration management. Are expected by the end of 2014 the strengthening of the surveillance of the land border with Turkey...
Human Rights Watch has released a new report on the human rights situation of foreigners in Greece , on the implementation of the operation Xenios Zeus for detention of illegal aliens , resulting in raids and ethnic profiling controls, especially in Athens...
In Lojane, near the border with Serbia, some 400 exiles were sheltered in the woods during the summer, and begin to approach the winter squatting empty houses. For now, the government does not take special measures: the exiles do not want to stay in Macedonia,...
On December 12, the trial of three of the attackers of Afghan asylum seeker. But according to Human Rights Watch is the first of its kind since 1999, when racist attacks are increasing in Greece and Athens in particular. The Pakistani community has recorded...
According to figures announced on November 18 to the press by the Serbian government, the number of asylum applications in Serbia would have been multiplied by six between 2010 and 2011 to $ 2700. For the exiles, the passage by sea from Greece to Italy...
Launched November 21, a major police operation in several cities in Serbia led to the arrest 719 illegal immigrants and exiles of 24 suspected smugglers. The exiles were arrested mainly from Afghanistan (443 people), Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Palestine....
After a 16-year-old Afghan was seriously injured by the police, about 400 exiles, joined by residents demonstrated against police violence in Patras, Greece's main port for departure to Italy. On January 2, police engaged in further violence against the...
Turkey is a signatory to the Geneva Convention, but with a geographical distribution limitation to members of the Council of Europe, that is to say that only people from these countries can apply for asylum. So there are about 70 refugees in Turkey, mainly...
The bazaars that lie between the Golden Horn and the Beyazit Mosque and Istanbul University are workplaces for children from 8 to 10 years. They wear various bales and loads, recover and transport which can be reused or resold, selling various trinkets....
Exiles of all nationalities passing through Istanbul are not found in the center of the city. A tragic event gives some information about it: five Indians exiled were killed in a fire at a building near the international airport. Releases from the police...
