Greece's migration ministry has rejected claims from NGOs that refugees and migrants residing in camps across the country have been deprived of food. This comes after UNHCR handed over the cash assistance program to Greek authorities.
One person has died and nine have been injured, including one seriously, when a vehicle carrying 10 migrants crashed in northern Greece, police said.
Hundreds of migrants in the Nea Kavala camp in northern Greece demonstrated on October 13 to protest the implementation of a new protocol that prevents them from accessing food. According to those contacted by InfoMigrants, nearly half of the 1,200 residents are no longer receiving food.
Greek coroner Pavlos Pavlidis autopsies all the bodies of migrants found in the Evros region, bordering Turkey. He tries to collect as much information as possible on each of them and keeps all their personal belongings to give them back their name and their dignity.
For a number of years, the bodies of unidentified migrants have lain in a small cemetery in Sidiro, a small Greek village a few miles from the Turkish border. Some of them drowned while trying to cross the Evros River, others died of hypothermia or were victims of road accidents. There are reportedly 200 bodies buried there, without names or dates.
In response to a large number of migrants attempting to cross the Evros River from Turkey in March 2020, Greece installed significant military force in the area. Migrants who still manage to cross the border cannot receive any help from NGOs as everyone is banned from this military zone.
In northern Greece, not far from the Greek-Macedonian border, the Nea Kavala migrant camp houses 1,200 people. It is one of the largest in the region. Isolated, not served by public transport, and now surrounded by a huge concrete wall, the camp is an "open-air prison" for its occupants.
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