Migration flows in the country have been balanced in the last 20 days, Thanos Plevris, Minister of Migration and Asylum, told SKAI, while also talking about the ways in which the government is trying to solve the problem as well as plans for closed structure in Crete.

‘From the day we voted on the amendment to date, (about 20 days) the total number is below 800 peoplethe moment when we voted on the amendment we had over 800 people a day‘, Mr Plevris initially mentioned.

“247 people have been transferred to PROPAKA and about 550 more, of which 300 are currently transferred to a closed structure that we have given by the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum to the Police. The same will be done with the rest as the regime for anyone who enters after the amendment is adopted is that it does not enter a hospitality structure, is arrested, remains incarcerated and the process is followed to return to the country where it came or to its country of origin. ” Continue.

As the Minister pointed out: “The bottom line is that we have a largely balancing of flow. We don’t say there is no flow at all. This has also played a role in the role that some of these days were bad weather. Respectively there is a significant pressure on diplomatic level The Government of Eastern Libya can work even more on information on boats leaving the coast. So far we have avoided leaving large boats, because the big problem and the very large flows we had when leaving boats with 300 -350 people. At the moment we do not have such a phenomenon. And our decision is definitely a big role, because there is slowly a clear message that in Greece you cannot submit asylum, you do not enter the hospitality structure, you are in prison. “

‘The circuits work with multifaceted process And we can never be sure if there is an aggressive move. So we have to be prepared‘, noted.

He even said that ‘We had seen A strange activity before we vote the amendment. We had seen an aggressive process in Internet and in social media where Called people from Libya to move to Greeceand Crete, which we watch with great care. This has put us in an additional context that we must be ready. “

For them refunds of immigrantsMr. Plevris said that “I think we will complete the processes for more returns because it is important that at the moment people have conditions of detention rather than freedom. But there must be more returns to make it clear to those on the Libyan coast, which is our main pressure right now, that it makes no sense to pay someone to move because they will come back. “

For the electronic surveillanceMr. Plevris explained that “With the new bill to be passed in late August to early September, once someone applies asylum the control process automatically. This takes about a month. Then he will have to come back voluntarily. Because many times we have the phenomenon when you give him the time of voluntary retirement to lose him, the one who will be rejected his asylum will come up with his profile, or in administrative booking directly, or in electronic surveillance to have full monitoring.

Currently a big part of the return to achieve is to accept the countries back. The More returns are made when the person consents. And we try me with all these measures, to We oblige this illegal immigrant to work togetherbecause when it collaborates, we can automatically have more returns we have now. ”

Respondent about structure in Cretethe Minister of Immigration said that the goal is to Found space and to be ready next summer.

“There will be the structure in Crete. We have already requested funding from the Commission. It takes a time frame. If we consider that flows arrive until October and usually after winter we have a great decrease, the main goal is a basic structure to be ready to prepare for time. The spaces that were indicated to us did not meet the terms and conditions so that we could immediately make a structure. We had examined some camps. Based on the circumstances, the scenario could not become a immediately structure and the scenario would be calmly the structure where we need to find the space and will open with the local community. ”

Mr. Plevris noted that already There have been spaces found to become a first flow management. “With Chania and Rethymnon we have reached an agreement, with Heraklion we are still in some thoughts.”

At the same time, the minister noted that ‘Central to the Council of Ministers of Migration was to Make detention of immigrants outside Europeand that It also includes Libya‘, While noting that the Eastern Libyan government with the EU is in negotiation to finally meet.

“And the east side wants to take advantage of this meeting because beyond the considerations it can have for migration is a piece of recognition,” ended up.