Photo: Marios Constantinides European leaders once again refused to open the discussion of a permanent relocation scheme from Greece and a resettlement scheme from Turkey, which is the only fair and effective strategy to deal with the situation and continued the catastrophic policy of securitization and militarization of the borders. This policy derives from the dogma of deterrence in order to avoid the secondary movement in their countries, as well as from an EU policy of boosting and militarizing border security, which builds upon prolonged lobbying by the European military and security industry. Following relevant order by the Ministry, the record-keeping of those arrested changed and became sole responsibility of the military forces and the Hellenic police. Nonetheless, the RIC of Fylakio received requests by the police outposts and finally accepted to host 146 individuals of families and children, 10 of whom where unaccompanied minors. In an unprecedented move, the Greek government froze the reception of asylum applications for a month, which meant that all newcomers were treated as illegal entries without the right of access to asylum; many of them received penal convictions with sentences of imprisonment for illegal entry (see next section). Following the incidents at the borders of Evros region, the far-right member of European Parliament (MEP) Ioannis Lagos was pictured along with locals patrolling the border from the illegal entrance of migrants and refugees early Friday of 6th of March. Moreover, members of an extreme-right German group traveled to Greece to help Greeks “defend their border”, as they claimed on social media, but were instructed to leave the country after local security services were informed of the group’s presence at the Greek-Turkish border. The group of 10 German and Austrian nationals of the Identitare Bewegung (Identitarian Movement), a far-right group with branches in several European 9|Page