Frontexin mukaan Pohjois-Afrikan levottomuudet ovat siirtäneet laittomien maahantulijoiden virran Kreikasta keskisellevälimerelle. Ensimmäisen kolmen kuukauden aikana 33 000 laitontamaahanmuuttajaa on ylittänyt Euroopan rajat, näistä 22 600 Italiaan. Kreikaan tulijoita oli samaan aikaan 7 200, mikä on 13 000 vähemmän kuin edellisenä vuotena.
44% Kreikkaan tulijoista oli Afganistanista, 16% Algeriasta, 8,5% Pakistanista, 6% Somaliasta ja 4% Irakista. Kasvana trendinä ovat algerialaiset jotka lentävät Algeriasta Turkkiin ja jatkavat sitten Kreikan rajalle.
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MORE MIGRANTS TAKING MEDITERRANEAN ROUTE, SAYS FRONTEX
(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, JUNE 15 - Political unrest in North Africa this year resulted in a heavier influx of undocumented immigrants toward the central Mediterranean and a drop in illegal arrivals in Greece, according to Frontex. Out of a total of around 33,000 would-be migrants arrested across the European Union for illegal entry in the first three months of this year, some 22,600 were stopped on the Italian borders, chiefly on the island of Lampedusa, Frontex's Deputy Executive Director Gil Arias Fernandez told a press conference in Athens on Tuesday as daily Kathimerini reports. Some 7,200 migrants were arrested at Greece's land and sea borders during this time - down from around 13,000 during the same period last year, he said. But Fernandez said that the increased pressure on the Italian islands and on Malta would not relieve Greece in the medium term. Greece remains the ''traditional transit country'' of choice for the majority of would-be migrants heading for Western and Northern Europe from Africa, he said. Of the migrants stopped by Greek border guards, 44% said they had come from Afghanistan, 16% from Algeria, 8.5% from Pakistan, 6% from Somalia and 4% from Iraq. A trend that is reportedly strengthening is that of Algerian immigrants taking direct flights to Turkey before continuing to the Greek-Turkish border.
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