interview with an employee from the GUS NGO, which runs a programme at the port of Ancona, the family mentioned that they were separated from the rest of the family (the husband and the other son) seven months ago. They did not want to stay in Italy but to reunify with the other son of the family in Germany. They were readmitted back to Greece. The Italian NGO then contacted the Greek Council for Refugees asking to trace the family and assist them apply for family reunification under the Dublin II Regulation from Greece.” M.T. (wife); S.T. (husband), from Afghanistan / Ancona – Igoumenitsa M.T. arrived with her husband S.T. at the port of Ancona on the 16th of February with the Superfast. They were arrested for holding false documents. They were interviewed by a member of the GUS NGO working at the port of Ancona. They said they were looking for their six children from which they had been separated. They were readmitted back to Greece on the same ship. I told the Greek police I was 23 years old, as I did not want to stay in prison for three months. I have been living in Patras for the last seven months. Once, I tried to leave Greece from the land borders. I had managed to reach Croatia but was then chainreadmitted back to Greece. Four months ago I arrived in Italy, at the port of Bari, on the small Superfast. I was hiding for 18 hours before the ship’s departure and I stayed there hiding for a total of 36 hours! The weather was bad and the ship left with a delay. I was hiding in a truck. The truck driver found me before arriving at the port of Patras. Two men dressed in a red uniform checked the trucks. When they found me I tried to escape and ran outside into the port. A truck stopped my way. Two Italian police officers in plainclothes ran after me. When I was caught, half of my body was practically outside from the port and half inside. They ordered me to sit down. I showed to them my Greek deportation order. I told them my brother lives in Italy and I gave them his phone number and told them that I am 16 years old. Then some guys from the Superfast came and started calling me: “malaka, malaka”. I was handcuffed and taken into a car. I thought they would bring me to the camp, but they brought me back to the ship and locked me in a room. I shouted to them: “Not Greek, not Greek. Problem! Problem! Sixteen-sixteen!” As Greek Council for Refugee was later informed by the Italian NGO: “Since the couple said they were looking for their children and did not want to stay in Italy, but reach their relatives in Belgium, the Border Police proceeded with their readmission to This room was somewhere in the upper floor of the ship, where they store the alcohol. We were Greece on board of the same motorship.” two Afghans locked up in that room. My friend is also a minor. At night the ship arrived back to Patras. In Italy they did not ask me anything, 3.1.2. Bari they did not take my fingerprints or any photo. I was never brought to the Police station. When I was brought back to the ship I thought there is no safety for me in Greece! We were not allowed A. (16), from Afghanistan51 / Bari - Patras to go to the bathroom. We had to pee in bottles. We were given two sandwiches and one bottle of water. Upon arrival to Patras, we were brought at A. is a minor whose brother has a humanitarian the “commandos’” place at the old port. We were protection status in Italy. Their father is dead and fingerprinted and they checked our documents. I he has no contact with his mother, as they are not was released, but my friend was registered as an in good terms. When he was eight years old he left adult and was “deported” to Athens.” with his elder brother and went to Iran, where they worked. Then his brother left and managed to reach Italy. A was working as a shoemaker in Iran. “I came to Greece in August 2011. When I arrived, 51 Interview held on May 11, 2012 in Patras 21