more than I was. His lips were bleeding. They took 200 euros from him. I told the coast guard at the port of Igoumenitsa that I am 15 years old and he registered me as a minor. We were detained in some cells at the port, During our journey back to Greece, the crew close to the sea. There are two separated rooms brought us water and food. We disembarked in with kind of a yard place enclosed by a fence. It’s Igoumenitsa. We were detained for twenty days like a cave. It was very dirty and a horrible place. I in the port of Igoumenitsa. We were forty people went on a hunger strike just for a day and we were in one room. There were many adults there. We then transferred to Konitsa. A place for minors like were then transferred to Konitsa, where there’s me. a shelter for minors. I don’t understand why we were brought to Igoumenitsa. We had left Greece When we were readmitted back to Greece, my from the port of Patras. I told the Italian officer head was empty. I had never thought before that that I wanted to stay in Italy. He told me “No, you if I ever manage to reach Italy, they would send me want to go to Germany.” I have an aunt who lives back to Greece. I thought they would at least ask me in Austria. If they had kept me in Italy, I would not where do I come from, why I left from my country, suffer living under these conditions here. I feel very how old am I, what I need… but they did not ask anxious since the day of my deportation. It’s been anything. They just sent me back to Greece.” eight months since I arrived in Greece and I have spent all of this time in Patras. It is a very bad place. We have a very bad time here. The police always M. (17), from Morocco50 / Ancona - Patras harass and beat us. I have been badly beaten here. Especially when in the port, the “commandos” beat a lot. Where I’m staying here, the police hunt us every day. At night we cannot move around as “My brother lives in Italy. He has a residence permit there. I first came to Greece four months ago. I was we can be attacked by racists.” arrested and I was registered as a minor by the Greek authorities. Ten days ago I finally managed to reach Ancona. I was hiding on a truck. The I. (15), from Afghanistan49 / Ancona – Igoumenitsa police found me once the ship arrived there. They transferred me to the police station, close to the port. They asked my name, my age and where do “We arrived at the port of Ancona 45 days before. I come from. I replied to them. I told them I am 17 We were on the big Superfast. We were two, hiding years old. There was no interpreter present. I tried under a truck. Before disembarking, the truck to tell them about my brother. I wanted to call him driver inspected his truck. He saw us and called the and speak with him. I want to stay with him. I signed security guy from the ship. We wanted to escape a paper. I do not know what it was. I did not see and started running toward the hatch of the ship. anyone else. I was not transferred to the hospital. I Just in front of it there were some Italian police was not allowed any access to a telephone. I stayed officers, but they did not notice us immediately. for a day in a cell. I was not given any food or water. We started running and the officers wearing blue The day after, around 6pm I was “deported” back uniforms caught us. We were brought up in a room, to Patras. I was then released. I felt exhausted.” where we were locked up. It’s the ship’s prison. It’s on the 9th floor of the ship, next to the elevator. It was a small cabin, with four beds inside. The S.M. (mother); M.J. (13 - daughter) and Y.J. (5 Italian officers searched our clothing and took our son), from Afghanistan / Ancona – Patras money. When I asked for my money back they beat me. They only asked us where we were from and nothing else. Nobody asked us how old we were st and there was no interpreter with them. They just The family arrived at the port of Ancona on the 21 left and locked the door behind us. Even though we of February (2012) with Minoan Lines. They wanted told them we came from Patras, we were returned to reach the other son residing in Germany and apply for family reunification. They were readmitted back to Igoumenitsa. We do not know why. back to Patras, on the same ship. During their 49 Interview held on May 11, 2012 in Patras. See also case of A.A. (15) 20 50 Interview held on May 12, 2012 in Patras