Copin
ng with a fundam
mental rights emeergency – The situ
uation of people crossing the Greeek border in an iirregular mannerr
The Mu
ufti arranges for the diggging up
of the grave
g
and th
he wrapping of the
corpse in a cereclotth. The bodyy bag is
h corpse. Acccording
buried next to each
M
each deceased is buried
to the Mufti,
in a separate gravee and all deceased
been buried there.
immigraants have b
Howeveer, the FRA
A counted only 48
graves in
i that cemetery.
The Mu
ufti indicated
d that he keeps a
plan of the cemetery where he marks
n
grave and the prrotocol
each new
Cemeetery in Sidiro
number of the b
body bag o
of the
deceeased person
n. There are no signs on tthe graves, aalthough repo
ortedly metaal signs weree put in
the p
past indicatin
ng the individ
dual person’ss protocol nu
umber, but th
hey have since disappearred.
The older gravess in the nortthern part off the cemeteery are not identifiable b
because the pile of
dirt that marks eeach individual tomb haas been levelled down and the entirre place has run to
older graves. He indicateed that
weeds. The Muffti admits thaat it is impossible to identify these o
oblems
there were cases of people looking for ttheir deceaseed relatives and that theere were pro
with the exhumaation.
ment for the burial has beeen covered by the Evross Prefecture w
with funds frrom the Ministry of
Paym
Interrior. Since 1 January 201
11 the Evros Region (whicch has replacced the Preffecture) has cceased
all payments and
d sends no in
nvoices to th
he Ministry o
of Interior. Th
he Region co
onsiders thatt under
o First Receeption should
d be competent for all reelevant
Articcle 8 of Law 3907/2011, the Service of
paym
ments. Howeever, such Seervice has no
ot been estab
blished yet and responsib
bilities to covver the
costss still need to
o be clarified
d.
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