It is for this reason that the case of Patra provides a flagrant reminder of the side-effects that deterrence, either at the EU or local levels, has had and continues to have on vulnerable persons’ lives. Yet, in spite of this, deterrence and repression remain the sole facets of the Greek state and Europe, with which those reaching Patra are once more faced. Source: Patra port authorities167 It is indicative that as arrivals in Patra started increasing, so did the measures to prevent them from exiting the country; something inter alia reflected in the increased number of arrests, which in January 2018 alone reached the 350 mark,168 and the increasing emphasis placed on guarding the port, as highlighted through such measures as the deployment of additional security personnel and the gradual construction of yet another, high-security, fence.169 Yet this increased efficiency in guarding the port, in pinning down the hopeless –whom much like Fanon’s “wretched of the earth” have been transformed into second-class humans in a system that has largely treated them as such170– and obstructing them from further venturing into “the land of promise”, is nowhere to be found when it comes to assisting them in their time of need. Thus even upon their arrest, the majority of would-be stowaways have simply been left once more on their own; left to return to their squalid “accommodation”, where if not for the assistance provided by civil society groups and organizations, and to a lesser extent the local Municipality, perhaps a worse fate would have expected them. “We have made calls to the state [to intervene and assist these people]…but the Ministry of Health has replied through the Municipality [that those living in the factories] are “irregular” [migrants]…[therefore] we can’t do anything [for them].” 171 Meanwhile, as if to further exacerbate the situation, allegations on beatings and abuses suffered by third-country nationals and stateless persons in the process of their being deterred from entering the port have been on the rise,172 with escalating tensions between the former and police and port authorities increasingly monopolizing the local 49