When Syrian refugee Ahmed Hamida stepped forward to the Greek island of Lesbos under cover of darkness, he was convinced that the road ahead would not be more difficult than he had encountered during his trip to the island. But instead of waiting for him volunteers and blankets, as happened with hundreds of thousands of refugees who preceded him, he was welcomed by a group of locals who laughed at him, and the police had to intervene to get rid of that situation. "It was the worst feeling I've ever felt," he said. "I felt that my dream about Greece was a lie."

Hamida was among the 200 refugees who arrived in Greece since the beginning of March, when the state prevented all asylum seekers from entering. The experiences of these refugees, starting from seeing their children drown in front of them at sea, and ending with being attacked by angry islanders, separating them from their families and placing them in remote detention camps, formed a nightmare vision that spanned a whole month, of what Europe would be without asylum rights .

Hamida was born in Damascus, and left her to escape military service. This 30-year-old told his story from inside the Malakasa concentration camp in central Greece. He spent the past four years in Turkey, where he met and married Syrian girl Hanan. But the couple were unable to provide for their life needs, Hanan became pregnant, and made a trip on a rubber boat to the island of Lesbos, hoping that Hamida would follow. She got there and gave birth to her baby, who is now in her fourth month. So far, Hamida has not been able to see his daughter. He spent his first week in Lesbos in a camp surrounded by barbed wire in the coastal city of Mytilene, before being shipped with 450 other new arrivals on a Greek Navy ship. "After the suspension of the granting of the right to asylum, this was followed by attempts to isolate the new arrivals, and to deny them access to lawyers, journalists and members of the European Parliament," said Amelia Cooper, a worker at the Lesbos legal center.

During the middle of last month, the Greek authorities started work in two locations, the first is Malakasa, where about 1,340 people were sent, and another place is Ceres near the border with Bulgaria, where there are about 600 people. A video of "Malacasa" shows white tents behind a fence topped with a barbed wire.

It is believed that most of those in Malakasa and Ceres have the order to leave Greece from the Greek police. Refugees say they have been forced to sign a document written in Greek, although they cannot read it.

Asylum

The Greek government has said that stopping the acceptance of asylum will be canceled, and that the European Union's Home Affairs Commissioner, Yelva Johnson, said last week that it had received assurances that those who arrived in March would be able to submit asylum applications. But Greek Minister of Immigration and Refuge Noutis Metarax said that "people who have orders to leave will not be granted asylum."

Vasilis Papadopoulos, a lawyer and former employee of the Immigration Ministry, says that Hamida and the others who were detained with him have become "examples of others", to prove Athena that the new policy is harsh.

dilemma

Greece canceled the entry of refugees after Turkey opened its borders in February and encouraged the refugees to cross in an effort to pressure the European Union in order to obtain more aid money in its military campaign that it was involved in against Russia and the Syrian government in the Idlib region.

- It is believed that most of those in Malakasa and Ceres have the order to leave Greece from the Greek police.

- During the middle of last month, the Greek authorities started work in two locations, the first is Malakasa, where about 1,340 people were sent, and the second is Ceres, close to the border with Bulgaria, where there are about 600 people.