In the yard and in the open parking lot of the Port Authority and Customs buildings, in the port of Souda Chania, the migrants who were spotted in Agia Galini are located, while at this time the migrants who were spotted in the morning at the beach of Trypitis in Gavdos and were transported by boat to Sfakia and then to Souda are also arriving. It is a total of 187 people, all of them very tired, who are trying to rest.

In Chania, the authorities and the self-government are deeply concerned, given that there is saturation in the accommodation points, since dozens of immigrants are also accommodated in the camps of Kalathas. Red Cross, nurses and health workers offer their services in the hospitality areas, have provided food, juices and water, register and provide medical care to those who need it.

As he told APE-MPE the deputy mayor of Chania Eleni Zervoudaki, “there is strong concern about the phenomenon of migratory flows, which reach Gavdos and the coast of Crete. The prefecture of Chania is not ready for the increased immigration flows, which create a domino of problems, both accommodation and of course economic needs that are created. The prosecutor said that when immigrants are found in a maritime area that belongs to the borders of a prefecture, regardless of whether they are disembarked by the Coast Guard, they should be taken to the structures of the prefecture where they were found. So the immigrants of Agia Galini Rethymno are in Chania. All of them are economic immigrants from Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh” and as he added “among them some minor children”. Mrs. Zervoudaki spoke about the strong concern and concern of the municipal Authority, pointing out that “we will stand up to our standards, but we need help from the official State to withstand the increased flows of immigrants”.

The Municipality of Agios Vassiliou in Rethymno, to which the port of Agia Galini belongs, is also ready. As he told APE-MPE, Mayor Yiannis Tatarakis, “We welcome them in Rethymno and then we take care that they are transferred to the Old Port Authority of Rethymno. There it is our obligation to treat them, to feed them, to take care of them until the official State undertakes their transport. Unfortunately, there is no financial support for the money that needs to be spent on these people. Of course, we can do nothing else than to treat them in a friendly and humane manner. Better to cut from somewhere else than to abandon them. They are unhappy people.”