informed the authorities of the location ve raises the concern of BVMN. Indeed, of the transit group to take their group to BVMN underlines that the use of these the camp. The police arrived and moved vehicles is a deliberate attempt of the the group in the bushes. They started to Greek authorities to avoid administrative take their phones and belongings and oversight. began to beat them with batons, kick them and held them at gunpoint. They On the 9th of September the respondent, burned their papers and their belongin- a 50- year-old man, boarded a bus in gs. They were driven to the coast and Xanthi. The bus was stopped by the poli- put to a HCG vessel before arriving at ce who asked the respondent for his do- the Turkish coast. The HCG vessel was cuments. When the respondent showed already deflating and they had to be res- his valid temporary residency permit, the cued by the Turkish Coast Guards. officer said that he “needed to check the document” and asked the respondent to According to international law, the use exit the bus. The respondent was hand- of firearms by police authorities is only cuffed and his documents were torn up. authorised when it is clearly necessary He was then brought to a police station and proportionate. Otherwise, it consti- and placed in a large, filthy and overc- tutes a violation of Article 3, ECHR. The rowded cell along with 26 other peop- testimonies show that the use of fire- le. Their clothes, shoes, valuables and arms is targeted towards unarmed and money were taken. After nine hours in vulnerable people. Therefore, BVMN fin- the cell, the group was forced to enter a ds that the use of firearms by the Greek small minibus that did not have air-con- police is disproportionate. ditioning but only a few holes in the roof for ventilation and that therefore was in- Inhuman Treatment inside police ve- tolerably hot. They were in these condi- hicles tions for five hours. Many vomited from heatstroke, while others stripped beca- According to the research conducted use of the high temperature. When they by the BCMN in 2020, inhuman treat- arrived, they were placed in a room with ment inside police vehicles in Greece is 120 other people. The police attacked present in up to 19.7% of the collected and beat many people. Afterwards, the testimonies. Indeed, the testimonies re- respondent and his group were loaded port overcrowding and people standing into “the army’s big green buses”. There on top of each other for hours which was insufficient seating on the bus and is in contradiction to guidelines on the those standing up stifled the air of tho- detention and transportation of people. se below them. As a consequence, two The improvised vehicles such as freezer people fainted. They were brought to trucks or freight trucks for the purpo- the border. The dinghy was too small for se of transporting people-on-the-mo- the overcrowded group. The ones who 8