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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-02-15
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[01] Greece to inaugurate first - albeit empty - hotspot in Chios
on Tuesday
[01] Greece to inaugurate first - albeit empty - hotspot in Chios
on Tuesday
The first identification and registration center has been completed on
the island of Chios, in the eastern Aegean, and is set to be inaugurated
by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos on Tuesday, as part of his tour in
the eastern Aegean.
The new so-called hotspot, built in a defunct industrial complex near the
village of Halkios, has the temporary capacity to register 600 refugees
and migrants on a daily basis which is expected to increase by up to
1,200 people per day.
The center will remain completely empty for now as no refugees or migrants
have arrived on the island in the past three days.
Public sector employees union ADEDY's local branch said it will stage
a protest on Tuesday outside the center to "express its opposition to
the attempted ghettoization of the victims of the brutal war in Syria
and Iraq as well as NATO's entrance into the Aegean."
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