A resident of the island, who sent relevant photographic material, complained to SKAI that there is an increase in migration flows in Rhodes. The photos show immigrants, including children, sleeping in cardboard boxes in the middle of the island’s square.

He spoke to SKAI about the situation with immigrants in Rhodes the Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Dimitris Kairides.

“We do not have an increase in flowsin the last 20 days we have had a big decrease,” he initially said on the TODAY show.

“We have a problem in the southern Dodecanese and I will explain it to you, however on the land border the flows have been reduced to zero, especially in the Evros”

“In the northern Aegean, in Lesvos and Samos they have decreased a lot, there is a migratory pressure in the southern Dodecanese, as in Symi and Kastelorizo ​​and Rhodes. Analytically, we have 31 immigrants in Kastelorizo ​​whom we are transferring to Kos and Leros».

“In Rhodes we have no structure”

“The situation is completely under control. However there is a problem“, he declared and continued “In Rhodes we have no structure. We are not talking about creating a structure, nor have we planned anything like that. But this creates a weakness because they have to leave and go to Leros and Kos, this creates a difficulty, a disturbance. This fact shows what happens when we don’t have structures.”

“Lesvos, Chios and Samos have modern structures and some reacted, but this is the solution. Unlike Italy and other countries, we have an organized system of receiving immigrants”

Finally he emphasized that these flows are not from Palestine and added that “there is a 50% reduction in flows.”