According to both respondents, the officers were aware of the specific harms being posed to this vulnerable individual and decided not to act. This particular case shows the wide-ranging abuse detainees inside Paranesti are subject to, which stretches from conditional to verbal to actual physical harm. The 28-year-old respondent ended the interview by asking field reporters to ensure his story is published saying, ‘show the people how we are suffering in this detention.’ These kinds of reports are not limited to Paranesti PRDC but are indicative of a wider trend of human rights violations across detention sites in Greece. Further reports gathered speak to the denial of medical care, squalid conditions, and physical beatings from staff in both Corinthos and Xanthi PRDC. Rather than ‘a few bad apples’, data gathered by the BVMN suggests violence in detention is a systematic and coordinated practice that fits with the general policy of deterrence and incarceration that the MMA appears to be pursuing. We assert that the Greek state is knowingly breaching its international obligations by regularly denying detainees access to basic conditional securities, procedural guarantees, and the protection of their non-derogable human rights. 2 3