3. Evros 13 Nea Vyssa is located in the North of Evros. It is a small village only 2km far from the border to Turkey. In 2010, during the phase when the district of Orestiada was the main border crossing area, it was an informal meeting point for the newcomers and the police, border guards and Frontex: Next to the rails, in an old railway station a group of newcomers waits for their »shuttle service« to detention. An Afghan family with two small kids sits next to some young African men and women. They have arrived in Europe, they think. They will be treated according to the Human Rights Charta, they think. Thus, they want the police to come and register them. »I thought we would be helped when we call the police,« a young Somali woman says. »Instead they just came to exploit us! If I had known what would follow, if I knew where they would bring us, I would have never called the police. I would have tried to reach Athens on my own!« 31 In the summer of the following year, most irregular migrants were crossing the border in the South of Evros region – near by Tychero, Soufli and Feres detention centres: 31 Infomobile, August 5, 2010 Migrants walking towards the next police station in Tyhero to be registered Along the main highway connecting the North of Evros with its South, groups of refugees are walking under the heat. Newly released, they try to get to Alexandroupolis railway station. »Is this the right way? Do you have something to drink? Where is the bus station? We cannot walk anymore,« says an elderly African man. In another part of the highway there are some young Afghan boys. They sit beneath the small shadow of a tree. Next to them there is an army car with two soldiers. They wait for their transfer to the nearest detention centre. In Tychero village there is another group of newcomers. Four Congolese women are searching for the police station in order to register themselves with the authorities. »We are walking up and down for six hours, but nobody here in this village wants to tell us where we have to go. There is no taxi or bus that would take us!« They are exhausted. One of them wears no shoes. Only a few kilometres away, in the river Evros, there are around 50 newcomers looking also for the police. An inhabitant gives them some bottles of water. »I have always water in my place. There are many refugees passing by and I meet them when I go hunting.«32 32 Infomobile, September 1, 2011