- 28 of the Directorate of Foreign Nationals of Attica, by crews of the Directorate of Technical Support
of the Police Headquarters and by private crews on request and following the approval of the
expenditure.
As regards the children at the Tavros facilities, during the Committee's visit (at the former women's
wing of the 3rd floor), they have been transferred from Eastern Aegean islands in order to be taken
to public hospitals and undergo tests (radiological, dermatological, pulmonary) necessary to be
taken then to accommodation centres. All minor detainees during the period of their protective
custody have two (2) hours of outdoor exercise at a special area while, during their stay the
PROKEKA facilities, they were confined in their cells only during the counting hours.
In collaboration with the Red Cross, they had been given hygiene items (toothpaste, toothbrush,
toilet paper, soap, shampoo), clothes (underwear, sheets) and toys (board games, balls).
Unaccompanied children-irregular migrants are no longer held at the PROKEKA detention facilities
of Tavros (see paragraph 47).
Paragraph 59: Request for information: Detention conditions at the Police Directorate at the
Athens Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos"
The holding facilities meet all necessary standards of hygiene and safety. The Police Directorate at
the Athens Airport makes all possible efforts to procure the frequent maintenance, disinfection,
debugging and rat extermination and the daily cleaning of the holding facilities, so that they always
remain functional and clean.
Persons arrested for flagrant criminal offences are detained for a short period, no more than three
(3) days, during which the criminal procedure is completed as a rule. Then irregular foreigners are
referred to the Deportation Department of the Directorate of Foreign Nationals of Attica, where
they belong until the completion of their deportation procedure. In case of congestion of the holding
facilities of the Police Directorate at the Athens Airport, the Deportation Department of the
Directorate of Foreign Nationals of Attica is immediately notified in order to redistribute detainees
to other holding areas to decongest the holding facilities. Political asylum-seeking foreigners are
also held for a short period for "on the spot" requests, no more than twenty eight (28) days from the
date of their registration with the Asylum Agency.
Outdoor exercise for the detainees is not currently available because of the location of the building,
but the Police Directorate at the Athens Airport has taken relevant action.
As regards the detention of foreign nationals at the holding rooms of the Airport Terminal of the
Athens International Airport, these rooms are for short stays and accommodate foreign nationals
characterized as irregular, who are returned to their country of origin on the next available flight, as
prescribed by article 5 of Law 4251/14 "Code of Migration and Social Inclusion and other
provisions". They are systematically registered in a special book.
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