Refugees: the expulsion process registered a slowdown in the increase in asylum requests in recent days
The increase in asylum claims in recent days and the clashes between migrants on Chios island complicating Tuesday the expulsion of migrants from Greece, under the agreement between the EU and Turkey.
During the day it is not provided no expulsion after Monday's operation, the first of its kind, during which 202 migrants who had not applied for asylum were taken from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to the Turkish port of Dikili.
Expulsions will resume when we have "a sufficient number" of migrants and the Turkish authorities approve, told AFP Giorgos Kyritsis, the Greek Service spokesman for the Coordination of Migration Policy (PCOS).
Turkey reported that the operation can be resumed on Wednesday.
In the two Greek islands, the main entry point into Europe for migrants in 2015, the expulsion process registered a slowdown in the increase in asylum requests in recent days, Kyritsis said.
These people came to Greece after March 20 and may be expelled from the country. Now, the Greek authorities will have to review the provisional lists, according to the spokesman.
In Chios, the situation was further complicated by the refusal of many migrants and refugees to return to Vial retention field, where expulsions are organized.
Many of them, nearly 600 local media reported, fled on Friday the country after clashes between groups of migrants and the authorities try to convince them to return to the field.
"These people can not stay in the city," said Giorgos Kyritsis, who however ruled out a police intervention.
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