In the “model” camp of Samos, where Greece parks migrants

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“Le Point” was able to spend a few hours in the Samos migrant camp, the “European Guantánamo”, in the Aegean Sea. An example for France?

By Alexia Kefalasspecial correspondent to Samos

Lhe winding road to the village of Zervou in northeastern Samos becomes slippery and treacherous as autumn showers pound the island where Pythagoras, one of the pioneers of mathematics in the world, was born. Greek antiquity. Between the rows of olive trees, the small chapels bear witness to the victims of road accidents. “There are more than 15,” said Dimitri Axiotis, who makes the trip from the island’s port every day of the year. He runs the new closed camp for refugees in Zervou. An ultra-modern and ultra-secure structure of approximately 1.5 hectares.

Arriving in the village, it is impossible not to see the imposing fences crowned with barbed wire, the watchtowers, police and private security guards on duty, who take turns day and night. At the entrance…

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