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Greece has suspended the treatment of asylum applications of people arriving at the sea of North Africa since July.
According to Greek authorities, more than 120 refugees and migrants were intercepted off the island of Crete.
Two boats, carrying 58 and 68 people who would have left Libya, were arrested on Monday and their passengers were placed in the custody in temporary shelters. More than 100 other refugees and migrants arrived in Crete this weekend after strong winds are waste.
The Conservative government of Greece last month All suspended asylum complaints For migrants arriving at the North African Sea, a decision he defended helped dissuade the crossings that culminated in July to more than 2,500 in a single week.
The ban was adopted in Parliament in the midst of an increase in asylum seekers reaching Crete and after talks with the Libyan government based in Benghazi to stem the flow, was canceled acrimonly in July.
He also marked an additional hardening of the position of Greece towards refugees and migrants under the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who has built a closure at its land borders in the North and has stimulated maritime patrols since its power in power in 2019.
The government remains in contradiction with the regional authorities in Crete on a construction plan of a permanent public transport installation on the island. He prepares a bill which would oblige imprisonment for people whose asylum complaints are refused and require ankle monitors for a period of compliance of 30 days before the expulsion.
Earlier this month, at least 26 people died after two boats southern southern Italian island of lampopunity.
This catastrophe, also involving people traveling from Libya, was the last to arrive at refugees and migrants making the perilous crossing the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.
Rights defense groups and United Nations have also documented Systematic abuse against refugees and migrants in Libyaincluding torture, rape and extortion. In February, the Libyan authorities discovered nearly 50 organizations of two male tanks in the southeast desert of the country, in the last horror involving people seeking to go to Europe through the North African country.
Since the beginning of this year, 675 people have died in the central Mediterranean while he was trying to cross, Filippo Ungaro, spokesperson for the United Nations Refugees in Italy, recently said.
