previous one and can accommodate up to 87 persons (Pappa 2012; Patsopoulou 2012).
However, AI reported in 2013 that detainees at the facility had to call the police
whenever they needed to use the toilet. Sometimes calls went unanswered, forcing
detainees to urinate in bottles (AI 2013b).
Aegean Islands. Various islands previously hosted detention facilities, which were
closed when migratory pressures shifted to the Evros region (see the GDP Greece 2009
profile). However, as pressures have shifted back to the Aegean, police have often
confined migrants in police stations, sometimes under appalling conditions (Infomobile
2012b; Pappa 2012). To accommodate the resurgence of detainees, the old Mersinidi
detention centre in Chios and Vanthy detention centre in Samos were reopened in April
2013 as screening centres (Pappa 2013). During its previous operations, the Vanthy
centre was notorious for overcrowding and deplorable hygiene. The ECtHR condemned
the facility in A.A. (ECtHR 2010). In September 2013, the second First Reception
Centre was set up in Moria in Lesvos, with the capacity of 150 (Theodoropoulou 2013).
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