ANNUAL SPECIAL REPORT 2016 ρ 21 On 11 April 2016 an Ombudsman delegation visited the Special Accommodation Facility for Unaccompanied Minors at Amygdaleza, to enable the Ombudsman to form its own opinion of the conditions of detention of unaccompanied minors. It was observed that - taking into account the small number of detainees – the detention conditions were acceptable for a short stay but that a stay of over one month becomes problematic, particularly for minors. In addition, access to the international protection procedure did not appear to present particular problems, since, at the time of the visit, a minor had been transferred to the regional asylum office for an interview. However, the delegation observed that detainees lack basic information and legal counsel. Most detainees were ignorant of the reason for their detention, and did not know that there was provision for placing them in accommodation facilities, provided that vacancies could be found; quite a few had relatives in Greece, both with legalization documents and without, while there was a widespread view that they would very soon be transferred through the open borders to Europe.