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were registered. This police station is notorious for drugs, since there are 18 drug therapy
centres in the surroundings, covering 1500 injecting drug users (IDU) every day.
Individual cases
A male detainee, aged 31, from Afghanistan, had been detained in the facility for six
months and five days. He was arrested for possession of drugs and has applied for asylum.
But he did not want to file for asylum because he has heard that it meant he would be
detained for longer. He said the police treatment was fine, but the food was terrible. There
was no change of clothes, soap or toothpaste available.
A male detainee, aged 32, from Afghanistan, has been detained in the facility for four
days. He said that he had been arrested along with a Greek citizen. He said the police took
the drugs off the Greek’s pocket and put them in his so he was arrested and the Greek was
released. He said he was beaten by police upon arrest in the hallway on one of the upper
floors of the police station. He was kicked and hit in the back while handcuffed. He said his
cheek bones hurt a lot but there were no longer any marks. He was going through drug
withdrawal and had not been seen by a doctor. Two nights earlier he was taken to a medical
clinic and given an injection of something and then returned to the facility. He said the
authorities cleaned the garbage off the floor in the police station half an hour before the
Special Rapporteur arrived.
A male detainee, aged 44, from Pakistan, had been detained in the facility for 60 days. He
was detained for not possessing valid papers. He had been living in Greece for four years
and had contacted a lawyer by phone by using one of the very expensive phone cards. He
said the food was terrible. On this day there were 27 people detained in the three cells, this
was typical as usually there were between 23 and 28 people here. Many people had to sleep
in the hallway.
A male detainee, aged 22, from Somalia, had been detained in the facility for 5 months and
6 days. He was detained for not possessing valid papers. He said sometimes they had to
wait a long time to receive food. There was no outdoor space and only a very small window
high up on the wall which provided some air.
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