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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Serbia: winter evictions

29 Sunday Jan 2017

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The cold weather this January has not only touched Greece (see here, here and there). In this context in Serbia, the government destroyed the encampments in the vicinity of Subotica, near the border with Hungary.

 

 

The railway hangars sqatted as shelters in Belgrade were also evacuated. Médecins Sans Frontières is trying to cope with the situation when the authorities are trying to hinder humanitarian aid.

http://www.msf.org/en/article/migration-thousands-trapped-freezing-temperatures-greece-and-balkans

http://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/le-fil-de-l-info/les-dernieres-infos-o-refugiesbalkans-les-anciens-hangars-ferroviaires-a-belgrade-bientot-evacues.html

http://www.msf.fr/presse/revue-de-presse/paris-match-en-serbie-migrants-enfer-hiver

 

Exiles in Balkan’s winter : a Migreurop press release

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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When winter becomes an additional element serving the European anti-migratory policies (see here and there), Migreurop denounces the way in which it can transform the hotspots of the Greek islands and the borders of the Balkans into a deathtrap as are the Mediterranean or the Sahara. Press Release:

 

http://www.migreurop.org/article2770.html

« The European Union cannot abolish winter:

it must instead put an end to the criminal hotspot policy!

At what point does failing to assist a person in danger become a crime? How many deaths are necessary to constitute a crime against humanity? These questions have been raised for years in relation to the thousands of people who have died in the Mediterranean due to the lack of legal routes into the European Union (EU). Today, the increasingly serious situation of thousands of refugees, trapped by freezing temperatures in Greek camps and on the ‘Balkan routes’, directly challenges the choices made by the EU concerning its ‘management of migration flows’.

Last spring, to avoid taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and other regions in crisis, European Commission officials and members of the European Council implemented a ‘hotspot solution’ which evidently failed to take into account meteorological variables: in winter, temperatures drop and the cold is intense, even on the Aegean islands deserted by tourists. Nothing more than tent camps has been put in place for refugees to be ‘stored’ in while forced returns are organised, considered by European officials and leaders as the best solution to resolve the ‘migration crisis’.

It is clear that the European Commission and EU member states never really believed in ‘relocation’, a measure intended to ‘relieve’ frontline countries (Greece and Italy) and prevent the hotspots from becoming lasting sites for the banishing of ‘undesirables’. In fact, whereas the stated aim is to transfer 63,000 people from Greece to other EU countries by September 2017, less than 8,000 people have so far been able to benefit from this measure.

As a result, around 15,000 people are currently imprisoned in the hotspots on the Greek islands, battered by wind and snow; thousands of others are stuck in a state of humanitarian emergency and extreme cold on the ‘Balkan routes’ cut off by EU member states and their allies. Yet people trapped in these hotspots are placed under the direct authority of the European agencies and officials who must ensure that these sites do not become places of death. They can do nothing to increase temperatures; putting an end to winter is not within the EU’s remit. However, closing the hotspots and organising access to long-term reception and residence is within the power of European leaders. It is on the basis of these tent camps disappearing beneath the snow that their criminal policy will be judged. »

 

arton2770-1baecPhoto : Belgrade, January 2017 | (c) Danilo Balducci

 

Exiles in Balkan’s winter: a petition from Amnesty International

16 Monday Jan 2017

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Winter highlights the conditions of reception in Greece, especially in the hotspots of the Greek islands, created in the framework of European policy, and where the exiles sleep in tents under the snow.

Amnesty International calls on the European Commission to ensure that dignified reception conditions are in place, that resources are put in place to deal with asylum applications properly, and that the planned transfers to other EU countries are effectively realized.

You can sign the petition here :

https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/refugees-freezing/

 

moria-hiverMoria’s hotspot camp, in Lesvos island.

Winter in the European Union’s refugees campings

10 Tuesday Jan 2017

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While the European Commission plans that asylum-seekers can be returned to Greece again under the Dublin III European Regulation, winter highlights the real conditions of reception. Often, tents in empty hangars, quite often, tents outdoors.

This is the case in Moria, on the island of Lesbos, one of the hotspots created by the European Union.

http://www.pappaspost.com/video-shocking-conditions-refugees-outdoor-camps-greece-moria-camp-lesvos-blanketed-snow/

http://blogyy.net/2017/01/09/le-vrai-visage-de-leurope-forteresse/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/unhcr-concerned-over-refugee-conditions-on-greek-islands/2017/01/06/1bd9153a-d40e-11e6-9651-54a0154cf5b3_story.html?utm_term=.4dbb62449014

– 28 ° in Bosnia and Herzegovina, – 27 ° in Serbia, the – 7 ° on the Croatian coast would appear to be mild if gusts of 140 km / h were not recorded a few kilometers away on the Montenegrin coast.

Through this cold one dies, and the list of dead exiles through the Balkans extends, in Bulgaria or Greece, near the borders.

http://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/le-fil-de-l-info/les-dernieres-infos-o-refugiesbalkans-une-refugiee-somalienne-morte-de-froid-en-bulgarie

http://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/le-fil-de-l-info/meteo-une-vague-de-froid-meurtriere-s-abat-sur-les-balkans.html

 

lesbos-7-janvierLesbos, refugees are stranded in the island as part of the European Union policy of “hotspots” at the borders and the agreement with Turkey (see here, here, here and there).

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