20.06.2022 PAGE 6 This security apparatus, said to be implemented to protect people, does not make the facility a place where people in need of protection feel safe: “The camp is very unsafe, [and] the police people, they are so aggressive.” A camp resident recounts how his accommodation was not respected by the facility staff: “The morning they came to tell me that they had to change my container. We had a compromise that I was leaving for my classes, after the classes I would come back at a certain time to find a solution, [but when I come back] I find all my stuff outside of my container.” The person had to move to another container eventually. “We have a private life to protect, and this is an attack on our private life.” Issues raised in the previous report are still affecting people’s daily life. For instance, the residents’ right to intimacy and privacy are not upheld as people continue to be forced to share the same container with several other people, often also from other communities, while having only one key to the container. Vulnerable groups such as women and LGBTQI+ people are at greater risks and not adequately protected. “That place [the camp] is not safe for women. Sometimes they even mix single women and single men [in the same container].” Women can be victims of sexual and genderbased violence but “even if they complain, they will not do anything.” “I don't feel safe in the camp at any time. When I'm already in the camp it's stress, it's depression, it's stress that starts.” POLICE VIOLENCE AND ARBITRARY DETENTION The high presence of police and private security guards in the CCAC complements the use of digital surveillance in making the facility an unsafe, restrictive, and abusive environment. David*, another asylum seeker residing in the facility, has been victim of abuse and arbitrary detention by the police. “I was sleeping, [it was] 4 to 5 in the morning, and then the police people knock on [my container] and I wake up. There were more than 15 police officers.” He recounts that it was winter and cold. “I said: let me take on some long trousers, because [it] is too cold. I got one jacket, They said "no".” He was handcuffed and “there [were] some police officers hitting me by my back”, saying “faster, quickly”. He and other residents were brought to a section of the camp: “[We] were just sitting there, up to 9 people and more than 30 police officers. And then I was thinking for the past weeks, for the past months “‘what did I do wrong?’”. A police officer told him: “You are illegal here, you [are not] supposed to be in this country, we don't like you”. While police officers repeatedly denied him the possibility of wearing warm clothes, he and the other people were brought to the local police station. LIFE IN THE CLOSED CONTROLLED ACCESS CENTRE IN SAMOS