VIOLENCE WITHIN GREECE‘S BORDERS Octo ber 2 020 INTRODUCTION disinfa ux coll ective This project initiates a new focus of the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN), distinct from the reporting undertaken on cross-border pushbacks: violence perpetrated against people-on-the-move (POM) inside states along the Balkan route. Internal violence refers to direct physical aggression, either against POM or against their immediate necessities such as food/shelter; or specific threats of imminent, direct physical violence inside a territory. Since May 2020, BVMN has been collecting testimonies from POM concerning their experiences of such violence. For this report - which is the first within a series - we will inspect Greece. After a brief outline of Greece’s policy context, it will first examine violence in detention, focusing particularly on Keratea, Petrou Ralli and Paranesti. Then, it will discuss police repression in the wake of the Moria fire and the proliferation of far-right vigilante groups. Finally, the situation in Patras Port will be explored. PAR ANESTI MORIA ATHENS KER ATEA PATR AS PETROU R ALLI