Some 5,000
third country nationals -- refugees and migrants -- have taken
temporary shelter inside four covered gateways at the port of Piraeus
on Monday, after arriving from islands of the eastern Aegean last
night.
Officials at
the Piraeus Port Authority told ANA-MPA tht one gate has been closed
by authorities for decontamination, so that it can be used to house
people who will arrive on Tuesday. They also said the exact numbers
of people housed in the premises change often, as some families
choose to leave shortly after arriving to find the Athens train
station and head north.
“The
crucial part is to be able to keep those people here for a few hours,
one or two days, because the port of Piraeus cannot be transformed
into a temporary accommodation camp. It’s a transit area and it can
only operate as such,” Shipping Minister Thodoris Drotsas said
earlier in the day.
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