Collection on relevant news: Week #14/2016 (31.3.2016)

In any case check Twitter #RefugeesGr & #Idomeni. 

Aegean Sea, Islands & Turkey:

• Just to give you an idea about the procedure on the islands now: „Frontex delivered the arrivals with their detention vans“:
  https://twitter.com/seadarksunset/status
• Blog about detained Migrants since the new deal:
  https://refugeetrail.wordpress.com/
• This is a very crucial idea: „accomondation on uninhabitted islands“:
  http://anglogreece.com/archive/places-needed-to-host-refugees

• Just to give you an idea how it looks at the islands now:
  https://twitter.com/lifeguardhellas/status/714850011109068800/photo/1
  https://www.facebook.com/MSF.VoicesFromTheRoad/photos/
  https://twitter.com/mpodil/status/
• „Arrivals of unaccompanied refugee children rising, Greek coast guard staff report“
  http://www.amna.gr/english/article/
• European policy is driving refugees to more dangerous routes across the Med
  https://theconversation.com/
• About turkish Asylum system:
  https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/
• Following several reports, the Turkish border police killed several syrians during the last month when they tried to cross the border to Turkey:
  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/
  http://www.independent.co.uk/
• New camps get set up in Turkey:
  http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/
• Video from protests at Moria camp in Lesvos:
  https://twitter.com/team_platanos/status/
• Refugee, migrant arrivals to Greece rise sharply despite EU-Turkey deal:
  http://www.ekathimerini.com/
• The EU-Turkey deal was planed to fully get in charge on the 4/4 but there are now different news about it. On the one hand its reported, that it seems unlikely that the EU-stuff (such as judges..) will arrive on time
  http://www.ekathimerini.com/
  on the other hand it was reported today that they plan to push-back about 500 people on the 4th/Monday http://www.ekathimerini.com/
• Here are some informations on the transporation of stuff to Lesvos and other islands: “ Up to 190 shipping containers are on their way to Lesvos, Samos and Chios, to be used as offices by 600 EU asylum officials and 430 interpreters“
  http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/
• NoBorder Kitchen in Lesvos is under threat of eviction:
  http://mpalothia.net/greece-no-border-kitchen-lesvos-treath-police-rate-eviction/
  https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de

Informations on leaving Greece:

• ‚Smuggling‘ – Inside Story (English):
  http://www.wsj.com/articles/
• Article about new route threw italy:
  http://www.dw.com/en/
• Bulgaria as the new route?
  http://www.novinite.com/articles/
  http://bulgaria.bordermonitoring.eu/
• Greece – Italy:
  http://www.theguardian.com/world/

Mainland of Greece – legal & political informations:

• ‚Greek plan with migrants: Who has money can stay‘ (sorry this one is in German, I will summ it up for you a little): http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/

 „Dmitris Mardas used to be co-financial minister, now he is foreign minister, his plan: Migrants who transfer their money from foreign bank accounts to Greece and invest here, will have the chance on a more permanent residance in Greece“. He gets critic from everywhere for this for thinking like a facist and making money with migrants. But he still fights for his plans and brings up that countrys like Turkey make money with migrants as well, f.e. Syrian busnisses migrated to Turkey and Turkish economy profits a lot. Scientists doubt this plan, even if they realize this, why should people transfer their money to Greece and invest there they say.“

• It’s not really possible to apply for Asylum or Relocation in Greece at the moment:
  https://twitter.com/koppeu1/status/
  https://twitter.com/Faloulah/status/
• Giving an inside view into a Refugee Camp in Greece plus some additional opinions on relocation, since it is not working at the moment:
  https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/
• Very random: Estonia received the first 7 relocated migrants from Greece:
  https://news.yahoo.com/
• At the moment it is almost impossible to reach somebody via Skype from the Greek offices. But to apply for asylum, family reunion or relocation this is the only way to set up a date for an interview. This article describes the experience of people who tried for several days to reach the hotlines (unfort. only in German):
  https://www.watson.ch/
• Report about a case of torture in police custody in Thessaloniki. Following the report, a migrant was tortured when police attempted to take his fingerprinted (Greek):
  https://athens.indymedia.org/post/
• „The deal struck between the EU and Turkey to manage the refugee crisis is a „spectacular failure,“ Greek politician Dimitris Papadimoulis, who heads the ruling Syriza party’s MEPs, tells DW.“
  http://dw.com/en/
• Greek Government started to transfer people from the Pireaus port to other camps all over Greece:
  http://www.ekathimerini.com/

Idomeni – Check on Twitter #Idomeni:

• Protest & Police Violance in Idomeni:
  http://www.euronews.com/2016/03/29/
  http://www.ekathimerini.com/

• Macedonian Borders closed till end of this year:
  http://greece.greekreporter.com/