The respondent is 22 years old and comes from Algeria. He was first arrested in Thessaloniki by a man and a woman in civilian clothes. Despite showing his asylum seeker documents, he was transferred to a police station, where he was left without food for 8-9 hours. Then he was transferred to the Transfers Department of Thessaloniki (Metagogon). After 14 days, he was taken to Paranesti, where he was asked to sign papers in Greek. He was put in a container room with another 14 to 18 people with access to one toilet and one shower. Some people slept on the floor so the room was overcrowded at the time. Most people were Algerian, Moroccan or Pakistani. Upon arrival, the police gave him a mattress and a blanket, which were both very dirty, and no hygiene items. The quality of food was bad. Access to the doctor on site was limited and available medication was restricted. Τhey were allowed to use their phones after one month of detention and only having had the camera of the phone smashed by the police. There was no available wifi. A seller with a truck would visit them everyday, so people with money could buy cigarettes, sim cards and other stuff. He had no access to legal aid nor interpreters. He had to pay a private lawyer to help him. Access to information about asylum was limited too. There were visits by UNHCR and IOM but they were only related to voluntary returns. While he was not pushed back himself, other people he was detained with told him they were sent back to Turkey. He claims that more than 80 people were involved in this pushback. He was a witness to numerous acts of violence, including beatings with batons and hate speech. "A violence that I have never seen in my life", as he describes. To protest against the quality of food, some of those detained went on a hunger strike, which was violently intercepted by undercover police forces. They entered the detention centre in balaclavas and black uniforms with the Greek flag on and with batons and started beating people indiscriminately. A lot were injured during this incident. Those who got injured were not taken to the hospital, but were instead kept inside one of the containers, without access to the outside area and market goods (e.g. cigarettes). He was attacked by the police twice. In their usual practice, they would line some people up and beat them with batons. The first time, he got a knee injury and could not walk for 10 days. The second time, he was so badly beaten on his face that he thought he would lose his hearing.