Copin
ng with a fundam
mental rights emeergency – The situ
uation of people crossing the Greeek border in an iirregular mannerr
How
wever, infrasttructure and
d resources need to bee found in o
order to set up the neccessary
reception and d
detention capacities. Mo
oreover, the political will needs to be translateed into
n the past, Arrticle 81 of LLaw 3386/200
05 provided for the creation of
implementing acction. Also in
or pre‐removval detention
n to be set up by decision taken byy the Ministtries of
speccial places fo
Interrior, Econom
my and Finance, Health and Social So
olidarity and Public Order. However, such a
decission was nevver taken for the centres in Evros.
The 2011 law alsso provides a
h
mechanism to deal with
irregularr
non‐‐removable
migrrants. Perso
ons whosee
remo
oval is postponed orr
susp
pended
will
bee
docu
umented
with
a
certiificate of su
uspension off
remo
oval (Articlee 24). Theyy
may also be allowed
d
ployment un
nder certain
n
emp
cond
ditions (Articcle 37 (5)). Iff Migrants sleeeping on the grround in Athenss
implemented accordingly,,
this mechanism will reduce the number of personss living in Atthens, Patras and other major
onomy for su
urvival. By reeducing
centtres without papers and who are reliiant on the iinformal eco
the number
n
of p
persons livingg in a grey zo
one, this meeasure can allso contributte to ease teensions
with local communities, whicch recently emerged in ceertain parts of
o the countrry.
Figure 2: Flow of new arrivvals according to the 2011 law
Sourrce: FRA, 2011
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