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‘Ντουζιέρες και στο μέλλον χημικές τουαλέτες για τους μετανάστες στον Λαδόπουλο’ [Shower and in
the future chemical toilets for migrants at Ladopoulos], the best, 2 December 2017,
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CNN reporter. Interview held on 27 November 2017.
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Information acquired via interviews with representatives of the port authorities (29 November
2017) and Praksis, in Patra (30 November 2017).
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Approximately 80%, as per information acquired during our interviews with the Director and representatives of the Police Directorate of Patra. Meeting held on 29 November 2017.
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To be noted based on observations made during the follow-up visit of 30 March 2018, this trend
had seemingly been reverted. The visit was joined by a Pashto-, Urdu- and Farsi-speaking interpreter
and, as per discussions held with the desolated factories’ inhabitants, it proved that most where nationals of Afghanistan. Furthermore, as per their statements, most had arrived in Greece via the Evros
land border –many, without being registered– while some 80-90 were unaccompanied minors.
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Indeed, if not for initiatives undertaken by the local civil society (Motion for the support of Refugees’
and Migrants’ Rights), the Municipality, NGOs (MdM, Praksis) and intergovernmental organisations
(IOM), that have on more than one occasion engaged with treatment campaigns, the situation could
have grown largely out of proportions.
161
Information acquired through meeting with volunteer doctors of Doc Mobile, in Patra, on November
30, 2017. Doc Mobile is one of few organizations that try to assist asylum seekers under these conditions. At the time of both our visits (29-30 November 2017 and 30 March 2018) they were providing
primary health services in the desolated factories on a daily basis.
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Also, Kontrafouri, F., ‘Refugees in Patras a fence and ferry away from a better life in Europe’, CGTN
America, 24 December 2017, <https://america.cgtn.com/2017/12/24/patras-greece-refugees-migrants-fence-ferry-europe>, last accessed 26 March 2018.
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Information inter alia acquired during interview with CNN Greece reporter on 27 November
2017.
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BBC, Cat and mouse: Migrants and police in Greece [video], BBC News, 16 May 2017,
<http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-39931365/migrant-in-greece-it-is-very-dangeroushere>, last accessed 29 March 2018.
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For more, Pliakos, K., ‘H «Ειδομένη της Πάτρας» (Μέρος 1ο)’ [The “Idomeni of Patra” (Part 1)], 15
October 2017, CNN Greece, <http://www.cnn.gr/focus/story/101631/h-eidomeni-tis-patras-meros1o>, last accessed 30 March 2018, and ‘Πάτρα: Το λιμάνι της αγωνίας για εκατοντάδες πρόσφυγες και
μετανάστες (Μέρος 2ο)’ [Patra: the port of despair for hundreds of refugees and migrants], 16 October
2017, CNN Greece, <http://www.cnn.gr/focus/story/101645/patra-to-limani-tis-agonias-gia-ekatontades-prosfyges-kai-metanastes-meros-2o>, last accessed 30 March 2018.
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Information acquired during interview with Praksis representative in Patra on 30 November
2017.
167
Data acquired following the interview-meeting held with representatives of Patra’s port authorities
on 29 November 2017.
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See Limenika nea, ‘ΠΑΤΡΑ Ρεκόρ συλλήψεων αλλοδαπών στο Λιμάνι της Πάτρας’ [Record arrests
of third-country nationals/non-nationals at the port of Patra], limenika nea, 26 January 2018,
<http://www.limenikanea.gr/2018/01/blog-post_747.html#.Ws30li5uZdg>, last accessed 26 March
2018, and Pelop, ‘Πάτρα: Τριπλασιασμός των συλλήψεων στο λιμάνι μέσα στο 2017’ [Threefold increase in the number of arrests at the port in 2017], pelop, 17 January 2018, <http://pelop.gr/?page=article&DocID=431565&srv=9>, last accessed 26 March 2018.
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See The Best News, ‘Νέα μέτρα στο λιμάνι της Πάτρας για το μεταναστευτικό - Στον ISPS οι
πλάστιγγες, ξεκινά η κατασκευή της ζώνης περιπολίας’ [New measures at the Patras port for the migration issue – at ISPS the scales, construction of the patrol zone begins], The Best News, 25 December
2017, <http://www.thebest.gr/news/index/viewStory/467916>, last accessed 30 March 2018 and The
Best News, ‘Με 20 Λιμενικούς ενισχύεται το Λιμάνι της Πάτρας- Επιτέλους μπαίνει φράχτης στον
αγώνα για το μεταναστευτικό’ [The Patras port is reinforced with 20 port guards – a fence is finally
placed in the struggle on migration], The Best News, 21 August 2017, <http://www.thebest.gr/news/index/viewStory/453830>, last accessed 30 March 2018.
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Fannon, F., The Wretched of the Earth, Penguin Books, London, 2001.
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