Asylum seekers to be moved out of camp for flood-stricken residents

Around 900 asylum seekers who are staying in the camp Koutsochero in Thessaly, will need to leave the camp to make place for the displaced, flood-stricken residents of the broader area.

Asylum seekers will be transferred to other camps across the country.

Citing local media, news website news247.gr reports that authorities have decided so and the asylum seekers’ evacuation is imminent.

The Anti-Racist Initiative of Larissa denounces the evacuation of the camp without any preparation and prior information, without a plan for where the people will be transferred, since the country’s accommodation facilities are already overcrowded and in a miserable condition, as they report characteristically.

With 4,000 homes estimated to have been damaged or collapsed from the floods in several villages in the plain of Thessaly,, so far, authorities face a serious problem of accommodation that has to be found quickly especially for elderly, families with children and other vulnerable groups.

Locals left without a home who found provisional accommodation by relatives in other cities wonder for how long can they stay there and how they will make a living as majority of them were farmers and breeders.