The respondent is 25 years old and from Morocco. He was apprehended along with one other man in Thessaloniki and subsequently detained at two different police stations in the city for approximately 35 days prior to being transferred to Paranesti Pre-Removal Detention Centre (PRDC) for a period of 10 months. During the apprehension, the respondent presented the officers with his asylum seeker card which was due to expire in 2024 and informed them that he had a job at a shopping mall in Thessaloniki, but was nonetheless handcuffed and violently put inside the officers’ car. The officers reportedly ripped the respondent’s asylum seeker card into pieces and used racist slurs against him when he told them he was from Morocco. The respondent reported that his friend had an ID document and spoke Greek, but was also taken into the police vehicle. The respondent described the first police station as a small building in Nea Poli, with one small and one large room inside. The respondent reported that he had his photograph taken and had to sign papers which he did not understand as he was not provided with a translator. The respondent reported that he was searched by officers working at the police station who did not find anything on his person. He was charged with possession of weed but was subsequently acquitted by a court ruling. At the court he was reportedly detained again by officers and taken to a large police station in Thessaloniki which the respondent described as “not clean at all.” The respondent reported that he was provided with a “really old blanket” and a mattress which was infested with bed bugs. He reportedly chose to sleep on the floor because of the bed bugs. He further reported: “You have addicts sleeping next to you, they bring criminals to this place as well.” After 35 days, the respondent was transferred to Paranesti PRDC and detained there for a period of ten months. The authorities informed him that he was being detained because he did not have documents. On arrival at the PRDC the respondent reportedly had all of his belongings confiscated including his mobile phone. The respondent described being detained in a room with ten other people. The respondent reported that Paranesti PRDC was full of insects and detainees were forced to drink unfiltered water from the bathroom taps and were provided with “barely edible” food. The respondent reportedly had access to legal assistance but reported that “[the lawyers] weren’t able to help me, they just took my money.” On several occasions the respondent was reportedly denied access to medical attention. “Many times I asked for a doctor and my health situation is getting worse, especially for the food, I feel that I don’t digest well, they never responded to me or took me to a doctor or hospital.” The respondent additionally reported that he was taken to a nurse at the PRDC on one occasion and was given an injection but not informed of the reason for this. The respondent reported incidents of violence by the authorities. The respondent further reported that he went on hunger strike and that, after two days of striking, he was taken by the authorities to a room which he described as a cell within a small police station located within the PRDC and held in isolation there from 8:00 until 22:00 during which time he was deprived of food and water. During his isolation, the respondent was verbally abused by a person whom he believed to be the wife of the manager of the PRDC. “She was insulting me while I was in the cell. ‘Why are you coming to this country? Go back home.’ She was saying many racist things to me but I couldn’t do anything about it.” The respondent reported that people are routinely taken to isolated locations “where other people cannot see them. That’s where they are beaten up and experience racist attacks. [...] The treatment is so bad from them [the authorities at Paranesti PRDC]. They see us as very small humans.”