Greek police expand an action named "stranger god Zeus" from last weekend, clean up massively and remove illegal immigrants.On 6th, more than 6000 suspected stowaways arrested.And among them, 1,600 illegal immigrants are waiting to be repatriated.
According to the Athens News reported, the police said, apart from random checks on immigration in the street, will also focus on investigating the local market, the destruction of the active presence of illegal immigrants."Clean-up operations are not limited to the scope of Athens, but also extends to include Patras area."
Associated Press reported that about the fight against illegal immigration operation, code named "stranger god Zeus", the Athens area said, the action aimed at restoring the immigrants as human dignity," immigrants were living in unhygienic conditions, loss of human dignity. "The Associated Press said, "stranger god Zeus is the Greek god of hospitality, God called cleanup operations is very uncoordinated endorsement. Greek Civil Protection Ministry said about 8,000 immigrants return home.
For a long time, for stowaways, Greece undoubtedly is the best channel to Europe, more than 200 km long border with Turkey, has become a "back door" for the illegal immigration from the Middle East and South Asia get into EU .In addition, under EU law, the illegal immigrants were arrested, should be sent back to the first arrival country when they enter the EU region.Therefore, with the superposition of many factors, illegal immigration has been plagued Greece's number one social issue.Now the Greek government most worried about Syria armed conflict may lead to pour into a large number of refugees from the Middle East, so that the problem of illegal immigration in Greece would become even worse."The structure of our society is crumbling, immigration is more serious than the economic problems", the Greek citizens responsible for public security and protection Minister Dundee Elias said in a radio interview.
The data show that up to one million illegal immigrants in the country of Greece, the resident population of just over 1000 million.Group of the large number of "black market residents, most of them can not find work, can not integrate into the local community, had to live in relatively backward communities.Increasingly poor, many illegal immigrants engaged in drug trafficking, theft and other criminal activities.Into an unprecedented economic crisis in Greece, the "black market residents caused law and order problem is becoming more serious and frequent occurrence of the Greeks illegal immigrants robbery, rape and other egregious cases, social discontent in Greece greatly increased.The Greek people generally expressed support for the crackdown.The Athenians Marianne "Global Times" reporter, said, "I want to clean up illegal immigrants action is the long-term future, all foreigners can encounter on the road holding a legal identity documents.
However, the Greek political arena of the cleanup operation is not to give a unified voice.Greek Parliament's secondlargest party leftwing alliance condemned, "show me your papers" action is a violation of human rights, "this will nurture racism".The farright political parties blame the government did not immediately immigrants back home, only during the "public relations show.