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more than 50 million people are
displaced around the world because of
conflict poverty persecution and climate
change three of the biggest gateways for
migrants and refugees into Europe are
through the Western Central and Eastern
Mediterranean to tackle the unprecedent
ented numbers of people risking their
lives to enter its borders Europe is
spending hundreds of millions of Euros
to fortify its
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Frontiers we don't make a because the
Greek don't help us we go
to she died from a hypothermia
she hav personal objects she name she
documents
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nothing more than 2,000 people were
illegally pushed back to Turkey from
Greece between 2012 and 2013 according
to a report by German and
pril we traveled to a small Greek
Village in the Everest region right next
to the Turkish land border this is where
the biggest alleged push back happened a
mysterious disappearance of a large
group of syrians in November
2013 so in a small village called pragi
the villagers here have reported seeing
150 Syrian refugees some of them were on
the Town Square by the church and
apparently white police vans came took
all the migrants drove them away and
nobody has seen them
since
one of the missing syrians was allegedly
later found in Turkey according to his
witness account the 150 refugees were
beaten robbed and then sent back to
Turkey and 13 people were missing after
the illegal readmission
operation to find out if the Greek
authorities had investigated this
disappearance we went to see the
Regional Police director of EAS
Macedonian
Trace 150 Syrian refugees disappeared in
a town called pragi do you know what the
investigation is at the this current
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moment
you were there in in 20110 where
suddenly you had a fivefold increase of
migrants coming in entering your region
um how did that affect you as a police
officer
for
so we just finished the interview with
Mr salamas the director of the police of
this region he described that the
conditions in their detention centers
and reception centers were wonderful
this is the absolute opposite of what
every single NGO who has had access to
these facilities have reported we asked
to see one of the detention centers for
ourselves one of sala's officers took a
suit to one in the town of fako but we
were not allowed to enter and very
limited in what we could
film the procedure we follow with all
Cru from this road if I go down without
a camera am I allowed to speak to some
people down there interview is not
allowed so apparently there are 300
people in the Reception Center and about
200 or more in this Detention Center me
screaming yazidi so I imagine it from
the yazidi
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minority you do you speak English not
good here we have big
problem of medicine we are very sick we
have children have problem in in his
heart and and don't don't give us hot
water and water clean not
clean yes we we we come from
single because the is the is K every
every every family are you applying for
Asylum we we don't make Asylum because
the Greek don't help us we won't go to
another count Europe people don't want
to apply for asylum in Greece because if
they do that means that they have to
stay in Greece and they don't want to
stay in Greece because it's a country in
crisis it'll be difficult to make a
living we've heard a lot of reports of
racist attacks must be really confusing
because they come from war torn
countries they had a very difficult
Journey here and now they're in this
building they can't leave
it and I'm I'm sure they have no idea
what's going to happen
next around 6,000 people are currently
detained in Greece for up to 18 months
sometimes longer NOS have reported
subhuman unsanitary condition conditions
in the centers with accounts of little
or no access to a yard wet mattresses
and broken toilets leaking excrement to
the floors below and that even Miners
and Asylum Seekers are detained with
insufficient access to Legal Aid they're
just simply detained in order to be
deported back to the country and again
one has to understand these people are
not criminals they're been treated as
criminals but they are not we have heard
cases of people trying to actually
commit suicide detention should only be
the last resort but in Greece is used
systematically and it's used in a way
that we believe it's also a way of
actually pushing people to leave the
country it's also a way to tell people
you are not welcome
here Greece has received millions of
Euros in EU funds to boost border
control and build more detention
facilities substantially less has been
allocated to improve conditions for
migrants and
refugees once nickname The Barn Door to
Europe the Greek Lambo with turkey is
now blocked off by a 7mile long fence
that cost more than €3 million e and was
built in the midst of Greece's crippling
financial
crisis the fence ends where the Greek
part of the Everest River begins whose
brutal under curs present a deadly
natural obstacle we're on the river
everus that's
turkey that's Greece this is where
migrants cross in small rubber boats and
because the river is really deep the
boats are not very safe and many of them
can't swim many people have lost their
lives
here we found the local fisherman to
take us along the dreaded
Waterway how long have you been a
fisherman here in
OS
fore
spee
did you ever have to save
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any
the bodies found in the river are taken
to the regional morg in
alexandris these people we found in the
ships we found in the river after one
month 2 months 6
months I say for us the problem is
indentification and if we found some
personal belongs or anything
else
this and if someone interesting about
this people and this is the photo from
the personal objects we take DNA from
this people I take DNA from that people
and they make IND ification the coroner
has taken it upon himself to log the DNA
of each body that is brought to the morg
taking DNA samples And archiving any
belongings are the only Clues to
identifying
them she died from
hypothermia
look I have a baby only one time we
found after 6 months how many many
people have come to your morg that you
haven't been able to identify for me in
the
last five years it's
uh 500 maybe and and is this a total
number of people that have been found or
have have more people been found er no
from the Greek side is this number but
the river
ever 50 percentage from
Greece another s from Turkish if we
found someone in the Greek site he come
here if they found in the Turkish side
we have information we don't know what
exactly happened there we don't know
number we don't know nothing about this
this woman number six she personal
objects she name she documents nothing
so people are now not a name but a
number yes only only with number who
nothing else so are all of these people
buried in the Cemetery yes all all the
people
mhm with no means of identifying them
the many hundreds who have lost their
lives in the Everest River usually end
up in unmarked graves in remote migrant
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cemeteries so you had to drive for an
hour up small mountain roads to get here
and the cemetery was absolutely
impossible to find it's completely
overgrown and you couldn't tell that
this is a
cemetery there are all these plastic
gloves spread around here
here they must have been used to to
carry bodies so that means probably
means that they're not buried in
coffins
there are no names no nothing not even
any religious
symbols we don't know how many people
are buried here
either unnamed Graves of unnamed people
who died trying to get into
Europe and there's no way of knowing why
they came where their families
are it's like these people never even
existed
for
so it's not easy you see this condition
see and have many dreams many future but
all thing in rubbish IND I'm here
sitting in this condition like crazy man
because of
what