0:00:15.800,0:00:19.080 Greece is one of the main entry gates into Europe. 0:00:21.960,0:00:23.720 We don't even have basic needs, 0:00:23.720,0:00:26.600 sometimes we stay all day without eating food. 0:00:31.520,0:00:33.480 You see, I sleep in the park. 0:00:37.040,0:00:40.280 They seek safety in Europe, but Greece is not safe. 0:00:42.480,0:00:45.920 You come to Greece? You will know Greece... 0:00:46.200,0:00:51.040 No work, no papers, the police, it's a problem... 0:00:51.200,0:00:54.520 I see frightened people, a lot of frightened people. 0:00:55.600,0:00:59.920 Sometimes, if you go outside, they try to beat us. 0:01:00.240,0:01:04.000 There is a very worrying increase in racist violence 0:01:04.000,0:01:07.920 and we hear about attacks almost daily. 0:01:07.920,0:01:12.040 Directly on their hearts. Knives on their hearts. 0:01:12.040,0:01:14.480 I like Greece, but Greeks don't like foreigners. 0:01:14.480,0:01:17.200 Greeks don't like foreigners, especially black people, 0:01:17.200,0:01:18.640 they hate foreigners. 0:01:40.600,0:01:44.640 Most refugees arrive in Europe by foot or by boat, 0:01:44.640,0:01:47.760 landing in Greece, Italy and Spain. 0:01:47.880,0:01:51.720 Under EU regulations, asylum claims have to be made 0:01:51.720,0:01:55.120 in the country through which refugees first enter Europe. 0:01:55.120,0:01:58.000 They cannot move to another European country. 0:01:58.000,0:02:02.360 In 2011 the European Court of Human Rights 0:02:02.360,0:02:05.160 found that asylum seekers in Greece 0:02:05.160,0:02:08.360 are at risk of inhuman and degrading treatment. 0:02:08.360,0:02:12.920 First of all it was done for the[br]deficiencies in the asylum procedure, 0:02:12.920,0:02:17.200 the detention conditions and living conditions in Greece. 0:02:24.480,0:02:26.600 Not even the police or the state 0:02:26.600,0:02:29.240 give us an exact number of refugees. 0:02:29.240,0:02:33.040 It's complicated. We don't know the number exactly. 0:02:33.040,0:02:38.640 In 2010 it was estimated by Frontex that about 80% 0:02:38.640,0:02:40.640 of all those who entered the European Union 0:02:40.640,0:02:42.440 entered through Greece. 0:02:42.440,0:02:46.800 So all those people had nowhere to stay, no social welfare, 0:02:46.800,0:02:49.480 and many of them were just sleeping rough. 0:02:49.480,0:02:52.120 And they were trapped in Greece, 0:02:52.120,0:02:57.200 with no possibility to leave and no possibility to stay. 0:02:57.200,0:02:59.720 We ask for help from the European Union. 0:02:59.720,0:03:01.360 Things are not going well. 0:03:02.200,0:03:05.600 Some sleep in the streets and eat from the trash. 0:03:06.120,0:03:08.200 We are not eating good food. 0:03:08.920,0:03:12.080 We're going to school hungry. 0:03:14.160,0:03:18.840 16 year- old Barry lives in a hostel for child refugees, 0:03:18.840,0:03:21.120 some as young as eight. 0:03:21.640,0:03:24.400 These images of the conditions inside 0:03:24.400,0:03:26.680 were filmed by one of the residents. 0:03:27.880,0:03:29.720 You can see the toilet the way it is. 0:03:30.600,0:03:35.120 17 year-old Yaseen is a resident in the same hostel. 0:03:35.520,0:03:37.400 I have big problem. 0:03:38.280,0:03:39.440 Don't have work, 0:03:40.320,0:03:42.320 don't have money, don't have clothes, 0:03:42.400,0:03:43.920 don't have shoes. 0:03:45.120,0:03:48.360 A few months later Yaseen receives bad news 0:03:48.360,0:03:50.480 about his family back in Pakistan. 0:03:52.480,0:03:55.560 Last month they bombed our home, 0:03:56.480,0:03:57.960 I lost my family. 0:03:59.640,0:04:02.480 The same summer, Yaseen turns 18 0:04:02.480,0:04:04.320 and is made to leave the hostel. 0:04:05.440,0:04:08.040 Since then he has been on the streets. 0:04:12.640,0:04:14.040 Early in the morning 0:04:14.040,0:04:17.840 Athens parks are full of refugees sleeping rough. 0:04:19.920,0:04:23.200 When they are picked up by the[br]police after crossing the border, 0:04:23.920,0:04:26.080 they are initially detained, 0:04:26.080,0:04:28.360 and then left to fend for themselves. 0:04:29.480,0:04:33.720 Police tell me: Go outside. 0:04:33.720,0:04:36.160 You see, I sleep in the park. 0:04:36.160,0:04:38.480 They tell me: Go, ok, go! 0:04:38.480,0:04:41.400 I have nowhere to go, I don't know nobody. 0:04:41.440,0:04:42.480 I sleep in the park. 0:04:42.480,0:04:44.880 Sometimes you pick something from refuse bin to eat. 0:04:44.880,0:04:47.360 No house, nothing, nothing I can do... 0:04:51.320,0:04:55.120 Really, here in Greece we suffer a lot. 0:04:55.120,0:04:56.560 We suffer. 0:04:56.560,0:04:57.760 We suffer a lot. 0:04:57.760,0:05:03.920 It is even difficult to eat, pay for water, food... 0:05:03.920,0:05:06.360 It's hard, it's hard for us. 0:05:08.680,0:05:13.640 People have to help refugees in this country. 0:05:15.800,0:05:18.400 They don't have arrangements for refugees. 0:05:18.400,0:05:21.040 We leave our countries because of problems 0:05:21.040,0:05:22.880 we don't leave our countries as we like. 0:05:23.880,0:05:26.600 Nobody likes to leave his country, for his heart. 0:05:27.000,0:05:28.840 We leave because of the problems. 0:05:29.880,0:05:32.000 They give me a gun, you know, AK-47, 0:05:32.000,0:05:33.600 they say 'You have to fight'. 0:05:34.280,0:05:36.360 Nurdin did not want to fight. 0:05:37.160,0:05:40.560 His mother sent him out of the country so he would be safe. 0:05:41.080,0:05:43.240 From Syria he walked for weeks, 0:05:43.520,0:05:46.440 travelling through Turkey on foot to get to Europe. 0:05:47.320,0:05:50.040 I'm staying in Axernon, just down the street, 0:05:50.040,0:05:51.600 I'm staying with my friends. 0:05:53.120,0:05:55.640 Axernon is a neighbourhood in Athens 0:05:55.640,0:05:57.440 with a large Somali community. 0:05:57.440,0:06:00.400 Welcome to Somalia! No Greek, Somalia! 0:06:05.480,0:06:08.440 This is the place, this is the house I live in. 0:06:09.000,0:06:10.800 We sleep here, you see. 0:06:10.800,0:06:12.560 This is mine, I sleep here. 0:06:12.560,0:06:14.680 There's another 7 guys who sleep here. 0:06:14.680,0:06:16.320 Not everybody has one, 0:06:16.800,0:06:18.920 we share, you know, we share the mattresses. 0:06:22.040,0:06:25.080 - Yeah, ten people.[br]- Ten people in this room? 0:06:27.000,0:06:31.120 18 people share this tiny one bedroom flat. 0:06:32.360,0:06:38.840 We really need help from the other European countries. 0:06:38.840,0:06:41.280 We really want to get out of this country. 0:06:41.280,0:06:43.320 We really have problems here. 0:06:50.960,0:06:53.960 I have a problem with this eye as you can see. 0:06:54.720,0:06:58.080 I tried to go to the hospital three times. 0:06:58.080,0:07:00.160 But they didn't help me nothing. 0:07:01.040,0:07:03.120 Nurdin managed to get a referral 0:07:03.120,0:07:06.080 and prescription for his eye condition 0:07:06.080,0:07:10.320 after visiting the free clinic run by Doctors of the World. 0:07:11.320,0:07:13.920 We started off by only taking care 0:07:13.920,0:07:17.000 of migrant and refugee patients. 0:07:17.000,0:07:19.680 It's only for the past six months, 0:07:19.680,0:07:22.440 since the economic crisis started, 0:07:22.440,0:07:24.960 that we see a lot of Greek patients as well. 0:07:29.240,0:07:31.960 At least for the past year, we have a humanitarian crisis 0:07:31.960,0:07:33.760 because of the economic crisis. 0:07:43.920,0:07:45.480 There is no money. 0:07:45.480,0:07:48.680 Yeah, I understand the economy is bad. 0:07:48.680,0:07:50.480 You people should allow us to leave! 0:07:57.680,0:07:58.840 It's much too hard. 0:07:58.840,0:08:02.040 I'm looking for a way to get out of Greece. 0:08:02.040,0:08:05.320 To any other European country... 0:08:09.280,0:08:11.920 We see even asylum seekers now 0:08:11.920,0:08:14.720 that they want to go back to their countries because 0:08:14.720,0:08:17.880 they have no jobs, they cannot survive in Greece. 0:08:18.000,0:08:21.800 Maybe I'll go back to my country, 0:08:21.800,0:08:24.600 because here it's not good for me. 0:08:25.080,0:08:27.320 My country is better. 0:08:29.240,0:08:32.080 Mahmud has spent time in an Iranian prison. 0:08:33.800,0:08:37.680 Here is a situation where you feel that 0:08:37.680,0:08:40.920 there is dire need for European solidarity. 0:08:40.920,0:08:43.000 Active solidarity. 0:08:43.000,0:08:45.200 Because usually immigrants come here, 0:08:45.200,0:08:48.000 and they don't have legal papers, 0:08:48.000,0:08:51.360 because they want to go to other European countries. 0:08:52.360,0:08:55.680 If you want to go to other countries, France, Norway, 0:08:55.680,0:08:56.920 airport: problem. 0:09:00.560,0:09:03.200 When we end up in a very poor country, 0:09:03.200,0:09:05.440 you people should allow us to go! 0:09:05.960,0:09:07.320 Why? 0:09:07.320,0:09:10.440 At the airport: Get out! Get out! 0:09:10.440,0:09:11.560 Always, why? 0:09:11.560,0:09:14.960 The other member states want Greece to control the borders 0:09:14.960,0:09:17.800 so that the people don't go irregularly there. 0:09:17.800,0:09:20.760 We are trapped here like in a prison, it's a prison. 0:09:22.320,0:09:25.400 I went to the airport, I told them: In this paper 0:09:25.400,0:09:28.480 they write I have to leave the country within 30 days. 0:09:28.480,0:09:30.720 So I'm leaving, I'm going to another country. 0:09:30.720,0:09:33.400 I was arrested, three days in jail... 0:09:47.960,0:09:50.880 We come here to get papers, but they don't give us any. 0:09:50.880,0:09:52.120 It's a problem. 0:09:54.200,0:09:58.640 There are many people and many asylum seekers 0:09:58.640,0:10:02.320 who do not manage to apply for asylum 0:10:02.320,0:10:07.040 and may be in the streets of Athens undocumented. 0:10:07.040,0:10:12.120 You see thousands of people without papers here. 0:10:13.040,0:10:16.080 The police station in Athens where most refugees 0:10:16.080,0:10:19.520 make their initial asylum claim is Petrou Ralli. 0:10:20.120,0:10:22.760 Applications can be made once a week. 0:10:24.320,0:10:29.640 I'm coming here for two months, every week I'm here. 0:10:31.360,0:10:32.920 And how long have you been here? 0:10:33.640,0:10:35.240 Six months. 0:10:35.240,0:10:37.240 For two years. Every week I come here. 0:10:37.240,0:10:39.040 No give papers. 0:10:39.040,0:10:42.440 Some people have been here for three years, ten years. 0:10:42.440,0:10:44.200 They don't give them papers. 0:10:47.520,0:10:49.600 We sleep here, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 0:10:49.600,0:10:51.320 day and night. 0:10:51.320,0:10:53.440 In the sun, in the cold. 0:10:53.440,0:10:57.040 No house, nowhere to sleep, no water, no food, no toilets. 0:10:57.960,0:11:01.520 Not only do asylum seekers queue day and night, 0:11:01.520,0:11:04.160 sometimes waiting for months or even years 0:11:04.160,0:11:05.960 to start their application. 0:11:06.440,0:11:09.160 They also say the police forcibly disperse them, 0:11:09.160,0:11:12.920 preventing them from registering their asylum claims. 0:11:12.920,0:11:15.320 Before you people came, they were pushing us. 0:11:15.320,0:11:17.120 Like in the slave trade. 0:11:17.120,0:11:18.800 The police come and chase us away 0:11:18.800,0:11:21.040 We return and they chase us off again. 0:11:21.720,0:11:24.320 Police, they beat, beat, beat. 0:11:24.320,0:11:26.760 They beat people. 0:11:26.760,0:11:28.600 They say we should go. 0:11:28.600,0:11:31.840 You people stay here for quite long, 0:11:31.840,0:11:33.760 so that they cannot pursue us again. 0:11:34.320,0:11:36.360 An interpreter was willing to speak 0:11:36.360,0:11:40.320 about her experiences working at this police station, 0:11:40.320,0:11:42.360 on condition of anonymity 0:11:42.360,0:11:44.920 Her words are spoken by an actress. 0:11:44.920,0:11:49.800 I think one of the main problems[br]with Petrou Ralli is the back gate. 0:11:49.800,0:11:52.320 In theory your interview should take place 0:11:52.320,0:11:56.120 from 3 up to 6 months after you applied for asylum. 0:11:56.120,0:11:58.360 In most of the cases it's not like that. 0:11:58.360,0:12:02.200 It could be like 2 years before you have your first interview. 0:12:02.200,0:12:04.760 So they have to come and renew their pink cards 0:12:04.760,0:12:06.840 every 3 to 6 months. 0:12:06.840,0:12:09.240 So they come at 6 o'clock in the morning 0:12:09.240,0:12:11.920 they wait outside behind the grills. 0:12:11.920,0:12:15.640 If it's raining, if it's snowing, if it's 40 degrees, 0:12:15.640,0:12:17.280 they have to wait there. 0:12:17.280,0:12:21.120 So at 2:30 or 3 a cop or two come back and 0:12:21.120,0:12:25.000 they call names without keeping any confidentiality at all. 0:12:32.040,0:12:34.200 So, they are given their pink cards, 0:12:34.200,0:12:37.360 but sometimes they also give rejections or positives. 0:12:37.360,0:12:39.040 Mostly rejections, 0:12:39.040,0:12:42.440 because I've never heard of any positive decision actually. 0:12:42.440,0:12:44.200 So, they call names, 0:12:45.960,0:12:49.440 They will bring in and out about 10 or 20 people. 0:12:49.440,0:12:52.520 The point is, they will not translate the whole decision. 0:12:52.520,0:12:54.040 They will just tell them: 0:12:54.040,0:12:55.360 'You leave the country' 0:12:55.360,0:12:56.720 'You, fuck off' 0:12:56.720,0:12:58.560 or: 'You're done with asylum' 0:12:58.560,0:13:03.520 or: 'You didn't convince anyone with your lies.' 0:13:11.600,0:13:16.680 In these situations, extremist groups take advantage. 0:13:16.680,0:13:20.080 They find fertile ground to take advantage. 0:13:20.080,0:13:24.360 The racist people, their community, it's called racist people, 0:13:24.360,0:13:25.840 they don't like black people. 0:13:25.840,0:13:27.560 They broke the windows, you see. 0:13:27.560,0:13:31.160 They were throwing stones at the house 0:13:31.160,0:13:33.000 and we were sleeping inside. 0:13:33.480,0:13:35.560 They were staying here like ten minutes, 0:13:35.560,0:13:37.480 and with the police also here. 0:13:37.480,0:13:39.440 They don't do nothing you see. 0:13:39.440,0:13:42.440 They were more than fifty people, shouting... 0:13:42.440,0:13:45.120 'Go, go back to your country black people.' 0:13:46.800,0:13:49.840 They stabbed one boy from here to here. 0:13:50.320,0:13:52.080 The boy wanted to die. 0:13:52.080,0:13:54.440 When I saw the boy yesterday, the boy started to tell me 0:13:54.440,0:13:57.480 that Golden Dawn wanted to kill him. 0:13:58.960,0:14:00.240 Because they don't want foreigners. 0:14:00.240,0:14:02.160 They call themselves nazi, nazi group. 0:14:02.720,0:14:07.640 Chrysi Avgi, or Golden Dawn is an extreme right party. 0:14:08.360,0:14:14.120 In the 2012 elections, they won 18 out of 300 seats 0:14:14.120,0:14:18.000 in the Greek parliament with 7 % of the vote. 0:14:18.000,0:14:21.240 Mobile phone footage published online 0:14:21.240,0:14:25.520 shows Golden Dawn supporters singing their anthem 0:14:25.520,0:14:27.800 and giving nazi salutes. 0:14:30.160,0:14:33.000 A neo-nazi party, a nazi sympathising party 0:14:33.000,0:14:36.680 in a territory, in a part of the world 0:14:36.680,0:14:41.800 where the nazis caused huge pain only a few decades ago, 0:14:41.800,0:14:45.840 it doesn't logically make any sense, it can't really exist. 0:14:45.880,0:14:50.640 According to the records of the Hellenic Statistical Authority 0:14:50.640,0:14:54.800 when the Second World War began 0:14:54.800,0:15:00.280 The Greek population was 7,344,000. 0:15:00.280,0:15:07.480 By the time the War ended our population was 6,805,000. 0:15:07.480,0:15:11.960 Manolis Glezos, who is a Syriza MP, has a seat in parliament 0:15:11.960,0:15:15.800 he, with his friend in 1941, climbed onto the Acropolis 0:15:15.800,0:15:18.360 and pulled down the swastika and put up the Greek flag. 0:15:18.360,0:15:22.040 And he has to sit in the parliament with neo-nazis! 0:15:22.040,0:15:24.280 It's an extraordinary situation. 0:15:25.200,0:15:29.800 Golden Dawn is an originally fascist organisation 0:15:29.800,0:15:32.840 It has connections with all the fascist parties all over Europe 0:15:32.840,0:15:35.200 and the whole world, even the Ku Klux Klan. 0:15:36.360,0:15:40.840 Opinion polls at the end of 2012 show growing support 0:15:40.840,0:15:43.680 for Golden Dawn, placing them third. 0:15:45.520,0:15:47.640 The following mobile phone clip was filmed at a 0:15:47.640,0:15:51.080 Golden Dawn meeting in Perama, on the outskirts of Athens. 0:15:51.920,0:15:54.800 We received complaints concerning local problems 0:15:54.800,0:15:56.680 in Keratsini due to Egyptians. 0:15:56.680,0:15:59.240 But we say that from now on they will give account for 0:15:59.240,0:16:02.680 their actions to Golden Dawn and to the Greek citizens. 0:16:06.880,0:16:09.800 The day after that meeting, Egyptians are gathered 0:16:09.800,0:16:12.680 in Perama at the home of some fishermen. 0:16:12.680,0:16:22.400 Egyptians never had bad relations with the Greeks, 0:16:22.400,0:16:28.600 in fact, quite the opposite. 0:16:28.600,0:16:34.520 But recently the far right party Golden Dawn has been 0:16:34.520,0:16:38.200 on the rise, with its aggression towards foreigners. 0:16:38.200,0:16:40.360 This is the car we use for work. 0:16:46.520,0:16:52.920 My family and I were sleeping in the house, 0:16:52.920,0:16:57.640 at around 3:10 am we heard our 0:16:57.640,0:17:02.520 doors and windows being broken. 0:17:02.520,0:17:12.360 I opened the window and saw more than 10-15 people 0:17:12.360,0:17:18.880 with Golden Dawn written on their t-shirts. 0:17:18.880,0:17:25.760 Each one of them had at least one of these metal batons. 0:17:25.760,0:17:29.080 They forgot this. 0:17:29.080,0:17:37.600 If you hit someone over the head[br]with this, you could kill them. 0:17:37.600,0:17:41.200 And we don't know why they are doing this to us Egyptians. 0:17:41.200,0:17:46.560 I have been here for 20 years, I pay my taxes. 0:17:46.680,0:17:49.120 They came from there, 0:17:49.120,0:17:50.960 from that street. 0:17:50.960,0:17:53.920 They came down and saw that 0:17:53.920,0:17:57.160 one of the Egyptian fishermen was sleeping here. 0:18:00.960,0:18:03.760 This is his blood. 0:18:07.160,0:18:13.720 And then we heard the man shout 'Come! Help me, help me!' 0:18:13.720,0:18:21.640 We went upstairs onto the roof, 0:18:21.640,0:18:23.560 up there, 0:18:23.560,0:18:26.680 and we couldn't see his face, 0:18:26.680,0:18:30.840 so much blood that we couldn't see his face. 0:18:38.520,0:18:42.680 This is inhuman of them 0:18:44.760,0:18:48.280 when will this end? 0:18:58.880,0:19:02.520 This is very sad, unbelievable, 0:19:02.520,0:19:09.440 about 7-800 attacks, and many, many attacks to kill people. 0:19:09.560,0:19:12.960 And there is a kind of pattern in these attacks: 0:19:13.320,0:19:16.960 many people going together, 0:19:16.960,0:19:19.920 attacking one migrant 0:19:19.920,0:19:22.320 using dogs to intimidate them... 0:19:22.320,0:19:25.160 They start telling the dog to chase us: 0:19:25.160,0:19:27.000 'Take him! Take him!' 0:19:27.000,0:19:30.360 And they were laughing, they were happy. 0:19:30.360,0:19:34.160 They go to the areas where the immigrants live 0:19:34.160,0:19:37.480 and they wait for them especially late at night 0:19:37.480,0:19:41.320 and then 3 or 4 or 5 of them attack one. 0:19:41.320,0:19:43.800 They were many, they grabbed me 0:19:43.800,0:19:45.480 started beating me. 0:19:45.480,0:19:48.440 So, in a sense, it's not random 0:19:48.440,0:19:51.920 I think it must be organised in that sense. 0:19:51.920,0:19:55.360 Some days were very heavy for us, 0:19:55.360,0:20:00.920 in one day, about 31 people were in hospital. 0:20:01.760,0:20:04.360 They are injured with broken legs and hands and open heads. 0:20:05.160,0:20:08.360 I have seen personally people who have been 0:20:08.360,0:20:11.080 beaten in the face, in the head. 0:20:11.080,0:20:14.600 And they were afraid to come immediately, 0:20:14.600,0:20:16.440 they were beaten on a Saturday, 0:20:16.440,0:20:19.560 and they would come midweek, the next week. 0:20:19.560,0:20:24.240 Because they were afraid to circulate in the town. 0:20:24.800,0:20:29.040 'Hey mavros!' that's: 'Hey black, hey black!' 0:20:29.040,0:20:31.600 How do I know that it is the Golden Dawn? 0:20:31.600,0:20:34.360 I just ask them: Who hit you? And they say: 0:20:34.360,0:20:38.080 White people, wearing black clothes with the signs. 0:20:38.080,0:20:42.400 The people who chase immigrants 0:20:42.400,0:20:44.640 when they see them on the road, 0:20:44.640,0:20:48.800 they always have something, a sign, of Golden Dawn. 0:20:48.800,0:20:51.360 And if you hear their spots on TV, 0:20:51.360,0:20:56.200 they threaten Greek people who might be helping 0:20:56.200,0:21:00.480 in any way, even speaking with an immigrant, 0:21:00.480,0:21:02.480 they threaten them as well. 0:21:20.760,0:21:26.160 Our dead brother's name was Shehzad Luqman. 0:21:26.160,0:21:30.720 He had been living in Peristeri for the last four years. 0:21:30.720,0:21:34.800 He was going to his job on his bike. 0:21:34.800,0:21:37.840 And they were waiting there and when he got there 0:21:37.840,0:21:41.800 they pulled out their knives, their weapons, 0:21:41.800,0:21:45.000 and they killed our brother. 0:22:07.240,0:22:10.640 Perpetrators of racist attacks are rarely apprehended 0:22:10.640,0:22:13.640 however on this occasion it was different. 0:22:14.200,0:22:16.520 A taxi driver saw the whole thing 0:22:16.520,0:22:18.280 and he called the police. 0:22:18.280,0:22:20.640 Every minute he called them: 0:22:20.640,0:22:23.640 They're now here, they're now turning... 0:22:23.640,0:22:27.440 From the spot of the murder to Syntagma. 0:22:27.440,0:22:31.760 For 35 or 40 minutes he was following them. 0:22:31.760,0:22:36.160 At last at Syntagma, they were arrested. 0:22:36.160,0:22:42.600 And there was the knife, with blood, they found it on them. 0:22:43.760,0:22:47.120 In the home of one of the suspects the police also found 0:22:47.120,0:22:50.640 a selection of weapons and Golden Dawn literature. 0:22:51.080,0:22:54.600 And now the police does not accept that it was an attack 0:22:54.600,0:23:00.040 with racist and nationalist motivation. 0:23:00.040,0:23:03.000 The law never arrested them. 0:23:03.000,0:23:07.760 It was the effort of the taxi driver. 0:23:07.760,0:23:11.720 A very brave man, and I salute this person. 0:23:16.760,0:23:19.040 Every day in broad daylight there are attacks, 0:23:19.040,0:23:21.520 on buses or in the streets, 0:23:21.520,0:23:24.400 where Greek citizens intervene and call the police, 0:23:24.400,0:23:26.600 when there's an attack on an immigrant. 0:23:26.600,0:23:29.960 And police have shown up and have arrested the immigrants 0:23:29.960,0:23:34.360 and sometimes they even harass and arrest the Greek people. 0:23:34.360,0:23:37.720 Everywhere where an attack is happening, there is always 0:23:37.720,0:23:43.320 a car, or a cycle, or a policeman walking, 0:23:43.320,0:23:45.040 like they didn't see anything. 0:23:45.320,0:23:48.400 One attack, even the police was near there, 0:23:48.400,0:23:51.600 they did nothing, they were talking... 0:23:51.600,0:23:53.600 They acted like they didn't see me. 0:23:53.600,0:23:56.440 I have a friend, a black one, who works with me, 0:23:56.440,0:23:59.400 and suddenly a car stopped 0:23:59.400,0:24:03.280 and four people came out of the car, they attacked him. 0:24:03.280,0:24:06.360 And the police was there, he was calling the police, 0:24:06.360,0:24:08.440 and they were looking, they didn't move. 0:24:08.440,0:24:10.560 And they let the car go. 0:24:10.560,0:24:13.040 They said: 'Oh, we cannot do anything for you.' 0:24:13.040,0:24:16.320 There is no accountability from the police. 0:24:16.320,0:24:18.400 And there is no accountability from the Greek state. 0:24:18.400,0:24:20.280 From the police, from the government 0:24:20.280,0:24:22.120 they have an open permit. 0:24:22.120,0:24:24.600 What you have here is a state that has a 0:24:24.600,0:24:28.120 clear continuity with a totalitarian regime. 0:24:28.120,0:24:31.960 We have to remember that Greece had a dictatorship, 0:24:31.960,0:24:36.680 that ended in 1974 officially, but there was a transition 0:24:36.680,0:24:40.240 and not a rupture into the post-dictatorial state, 0:24:40.240,0:24:41.840 into the democratic state. 0:24:43.920,0:24:46.400 When the junta fell in 1974 0:24:46.400,0:24:50.000 the police force was never really cleaned up 0:24:50.000,0:24:53.360 and so the police force in Greece doesn't really operate 0:24:53.360,0:24:55.160 to serve and protect the people 0:24:55.160,0:24:57.360 the way it should in a democratic society. 0:25:00.880,0:25:03.880 I've been beaten by fascists several times. 0:25:08.360,0:25:11.640 I've been beaten by police more times than beaten by fascists, 0:25:11.640,0:25:15.120 since 1973 and the revolt against the dictatorship. 0:25:17.800,0:25:20.400 It was about 11 o'clock in the morning 0:25:20.400,0:25:23.000 and we heard some voices outside 0:25:23.000,0:25:25.360 and we found out that there was 0:25:25.360,0:25:30.080 one policeman in plain clothes and one in uniform 0:25:30.080,0:25:32.720 beating an immigrant. 0:25:32.720,0:25:34.760 We started shouting from the windows, 0:25:34.760,0:25:37.480 things like: 'Stop these racist attacks!' 0:25:37.480,0:25:40.720 In a second, there were about 30 policemen, 0:25:40.720,0:25:43.000 25-30 policemen, riot police, 0:25:43.000,0:25:44.640 coming from the one side of the road 0:25:44.640,0:25:48.760 and about 15 other people from the other side of the road. 0:25:48.760,0:25:51.880 Later we discovered that they were members of Golden Dawn. 0:25:51.880,0:25:53.960 They took the immigrant away. 0:25:53.960,0:25:57.720 And they all gathered outside the front door of our offices, 0:25:57.720,0:25:59.720 started shouting at us. 0:25:59.720,0:26:02.080 In the beginning saying that 'You have to come down' 0:26:02.080,0:26:06.600 and 'You give protection to illegal[br]immigrants and we're going to arrest you' 0:26:06.600,0:26:10.520 and the other ones shouting: 'We won't just arrest you' 0:26:10.520,0:26:14.240 'We will' ok 'fuck you!' 0:26:14.280,0:26:16.840 Some of them were saying: 'We will turn you into soap' 0:26:16.840,0:26:19.400 the fascist, nazi slogan. 0:26:19.400,0:26:22.200 It was a terrifying thing. 0:26:22.200,0:26:24.520 Not just because there were the fascists there, 0:26:24.520,0:26:27.760 but because together with the fascists were policemen 0:26:27.760,0:26:32.400 in uniforms, officially showing that they were policemen 0:26:33.360,0:26:36.080 being in a kind of delirium, 0:26:36.080,0:26:41.240 crazy, beating, shouting, swearing... 0:27:08.720,0:27:10.680 The police, they ask me: 'Where is your paper?' 0:27:10.680,0:27:12.440 When I give them my papers they ask me: 0:27:12.440,0:27:15.240 'Is this the paper?' - they cut it. 0:27:15.240,0:27:18.720 And they put it like this and say: 'This is not a paper' 0:27:19.440,0:27:21.880 I said: 'You are the ones who gave me that paper!' 0:27:21.880,0:27:24.320 They attack me, the police. 0:27:24.320,0:27:28.440 And then they remove my shirt, I'm there with no shirt on. 0:27:28.440,0:27:31.120 They look at me and say: 'Take him to the police' 0:27:31.120,0:27:32.760 'He doesn't have papers.' 0:27:32.760,0:27:35.040 They take me to the police, although I have papers. 0:27:35.040,0:27:37.640 After nine hours they let me go. 0:27:38.840,0:27:41.280 We have also testimonies by people 0:27:41.280,0:27:43.920 who have been attacked by the police. 0:27:44.280,0:27:48.200 The police beat you like animals, they beat you like animals. 0:27:48.800,0:27:51.160 We have people who come 0:27:51.160,0:27:54.240 who have been hit by clubs by the police. 0:28:30.000,0:28:32.160 Omonia is an Athens neighbourhood 0:28:32.160,0:28:34.280 with a large migrant community. 0:28:36.080,0:28:38.120 I was walking through Omonia 0:28:38.120,0:28:41.720 and I heard a lot of screaming and shouting 0:28:41.720,0:28:45.480 and I saw an immigrant being arrested by two policemen 0:28:45.480,0:28:48.560 with their scarves over their face. 0:28:48.560,0:28:52.720 And he fell to the ground and they picked him up by his legs, 0:28:52.720,0:28:54.240 he was in handcuffs, 0:28:54.240,0:28:56.920 and they started dragging him along the ground. 0:28:56.920,0:29:00.320 And I took my mobile phone out and started filming. 0:29:00.320,0:29:03.560 At which point they turned their attention on me 0:29:03.560,0:29:05.800 and surrounded me 0:29:05.800,0:29:09.920 and an argument followed demanding my phone. 0:29:09.920,0:29:13.600 And I was arrested and taken to the police station for the day. 0:29:14.520,0:29:18.960 Police have a permanent presence,[br]checking papers and arresting people. 0:29:25.480,0:29:28.400 At a street corner in Omonia police are detaining 0:29:28.400,0:29:31.640 foreigners suspected of being in the country illegally. 0:29:32.440,0:29:36.120 The detainees wave at the camera, motioning to get closer. 0:29:36.120,0:29:37.880 You take photo? 0:29:37.880,0:29:39.000 We are press. 0:29:39.000,0:29:41.880 But the police object to the recording of their actions. 0:29:41.880,0:29:43.280 Yeah, but you take photo? 0:29:43.280,0:29:44.840 You can't take photo, you know. 0:29:44.840,0:29:45.760 Close the camera please. 0:29:45.760,0:29:49.800 The police have no right to prevent you from filming 0:29:49.800,0:29:53.280 or taking pictures in public spaces. 0:29:53.280,0:29:54.800 We're being stopped. 0:30:00.160,0:30:01.200 Are you journalists? 0:30:01.200,0:30:02.320 Yes, we are journalists, we're from London. 0:30:02.320,0:30:06.240 It is illegal recording police. 0:30:06.240,0:30:09.240 Policemen have no right to request any photographic 0:30:09.240,0:30:11.840 data from your memory card or video camera. 0:30:11.840,0:30:13.920 It's explicitly prohibited. 0:30:13.920,0:30:16.960 If you take video, delete the video. 0:30:17.880,0:30:22.560 They have no right at all to touch your stills or video camera. 0:30:22.560,0:30:24.720 Get your hand off my camera! 0:30:24.720,0:30:26.440 Get your camera down. 0:30:26.440,0:30:28.600 I'm allowed to film. 0:30:28.600,0:30:32.920 Get your hand off my camera! 0:30:35.920,0:30:38.720 And there's been a very serious development a few months ago 0:30:38.720,0:30:41.560 when a group of demonstrators including women 0:30:41.560,0:30:44.560 were arrested and held in detention and tortured. 0:30:45.000,0:30:47.160 They went on motorbikes through some of the areas in Athens 0:30:47.160,0:30:49.320 that have high immigrant populations, 0:30:49.320,0:30:52.040 where Golden Dawn have been literally terrorising people 0:30:52.040,0:30:56.360 to show that we Greek citizens or Greek people 0:30:56.360,0:30:59.320 are in solidarity with immigrants and we don't accept 0:30:59.320,0:31:03.840 that our neighbourhoods are being[br]taken over and dominated by neo-nazis. 0:31:14.200,0:31:17.440 They were hitting them, they were slapping[br]them, they were spitting at them, 0:31:17.800,0:31:19.880 they were using them as ashtrays. 0:31:20.120,0:31:22.200 When I went there and saw them I was shocked 0:31:22.200,0:31:23.840 by what I saw, by the beatings. 0:31:23.840,0:31:27.920 These heavy bruises are not inflicted by one hit. 0:31:27.920,0:31:32.200 These are repeated hits with different instruments and means 0:31:32.200,0:31:34.640 in the same body parts. 0:31:34.640,0:31:38.600 That can only happen if you intend to ... 0:31:38.600,0:31:41.440 ... to inflict severe pain on someone, 0:31:41.440,0:31:43.360 if you want to torture them. 0:31:43.360,0:31:46.200 What we heard from the 15 arrested people is that 0:31:46.200,0:31:48.800 the policemen who were doing all these things to them 0:31:48.800,0:31:51.520 openly claimed that they are members of the Golden Dawn. 0:31:51.520,0:31:53.240 What was transferred to me was that 0:31:53.240,0:31:57.040 the most terrifying thing was that other policemen 0:31:57.040,0:32:01.360 were filming on their cell phones, their mobile phones, 0:32:01.360,0:32:05.240 saying that they will use these videos and photographs 0:32:05.240,0:32:07.160 to give them to Golden Dawn. 0:32:07.160,0:32:14.600 The official line of the police is[br]that nothing like that happened. 0:32:15.840,0:32:17.880 And what has happened now in my reading is that 0:32:17.880,0:32:24.760 the Golden Dawn has come in as a kind of a backup, 0:32:24.760,0:32:28.000 one of the last few backups the state has, 0:32:28.000,0:32:31.800 to impose fear on its citizens, on its subjects 0:32:31.800,0:32:35.760 and to continue existing and ruling as before. 0:32:35.760,0:32:39.480 Fear is not an option. 0:32:39.480,0:32:44.400 The people must understand that, we must not fear them. 0:32:44.400,0:32:48.960 If we let them scare us and terrorise us, then they win. 0:32:48.960,0:32:52.040 This must not happen. 0:32:52.040,0:32:54.800 People should fight back, people should resist. 0:32:54.800,0:32:56.880 The people have the power to do so. 0:32:56.880,0:33:01.240 In June 2012 97 year-old Katina Sifakaki 0:33:01.240,0:33:04.480 leads a march against Golden Dawn through Athens. 0:33:05.440,0:33:09.320 She has fought fascism once before,[br]during the Second World War, 0:33:09.320,0:33:11.520 when she was part of the Greek resistance. 0:33:12.080,0:33:20.640 The people were united, they put aside[br]every difference they had between them. 0:33:24.440,0:33:30.360 In April 2012 a few hundred people[br]joined a protest against Golden Dawn. 0:33:30.920,0:33:34.040 Since then thousands have taken to the streets 0:33:34.040,0:33:36.800 to protest against racist attacks, 0:33:36.800,0:33:39.880 in solidarity with refugees and migrants. 0:33:40.080,0:33:43.800 These groups, antifascists, the left wing 0:33:43.800,0:33:47.680 are hope for the immigrants. 0:33:48.280,0:33:51.360 There's been a very very strong and diverse response 0:33:51.360,0:33:53.440 which you don't see reported in the international media 0:33:53.440,0:33:54.520 on the really local level, 0:33:54.520,0:33:57.520 in neighbourhoods and squares all over Greece. 0:33:57.720,0:34:00.080 We're going to come together and protest 0:34:00.080,0:34:03.840 against these deranged murderous fascists. 0:34:03.840,0:34:05.160 We are not afraid of them. 0:34:05.160,0:34:09.280 Greek society is a freedom-loving, democratic 0:34:09.280,0:34:13.920 and spontaneous society. 0:34:31.520,0:34:35.800 There's no money left to run even the most basic of services. 0:34:35.800,0:34:38.880 You don't have any money to run hospitals properly, 0:34:38.880,0:34:40.960 or kindergartens or anything. 0:34:40.960,0:34:44.200 Even the most primary, the most basic infrastructures 0:34:44.200,0:34:46.840 for peoples' everyday lives are not there anymore. 0:34:48.080,0:34:51.720 Greek doctors have been instructed in a directive 0:34:51.720,0:34:54.680 to not treat undocumented migrants. 0:34:56.800,0:34:59.400 I used to work in a hospital about a year ago 0:34:59.400,0:35:05.160 and we had that instruction but we never followed it. 0:35:05.160,0:35:09.440 Because as doctors we have sworn to help people. 0:35:09.440,0:35:11.720 We use a mobile clinic. 0:35:11.720,0:35:18.080 And they were treating people near a Golden Dawn office. 0:35:18.080,0:35:22.560 And they were out on the balcony and showing like: 0:35:22.560,0:35:26.520 'We will get you' to us, who are doctors! 0:35:26.520,0:35:29.400 In a lot of the international media the Golden Dawn 0:35:29.400,0:35:32.600 is portrayed as somewhat anti-systemic, maybe, 0:35:32.600,0:35:35.640 as a party trying to create some sort of rupture, 0:35:35.640,0:35:37.840 some sort of radical change, 0:35:37.840,0:35:41.000 while essentially they are the continuation 0:35:41.000,0:35:44.680 of mainstream politics by other means. 0:35:44.680,0:35:48.880 Before the last elections, you saw[br]speeches for instance by Samaras 0:35:48.880,0:35:53.440 even going as far as saying: 'We[br]need to clean Greece of immigrants' 0:35:53.440,0:35:57.440 The kind of terms that sort of point to ethnic cleansing 0:35:57.440,0:36:01.320 which is exactly the sort of language that Golden Dawn use. 0:36:01.320,0:36:03.440 When Samaras was saying for example: 0:36:03.440,0:36:06.200 'We have to clean the streets from immigrants' 0:36:06.200,0:36:11.040 Golden Dawn was getting out and started[br]hitting immigrants in the streets. 0:36:11.040,0:36:15.200 The prime minister's choice of words 'to clean the streets' 0:36:15.200,0:36:19.680 draws a direct parallel between migrants and dirt or litter. 0:36:20.760,0:36:23.600 Speaking of migrants in terms of disease, 0:36:23.600,0:36:26.320 natural disaster or infestation, 0:36:26.320,0:36:30.440 bears the implicit message that they are a threat to society. 0:36:32.240,0:36:35.120 People are moving, they're desperate 0:36:35.120,0:36:38.240 because of violations of human rights, 0:36:38.240,0:36:41.480 because of poverty, because of climate change, 0:36:41.480,0:36:45.720 for all these reasons, people are moving. 0:36:46.360,0:36:49.840 I get into the country and they give me a paper: 0:36:49.840,0:36:53.080 In thirty days you should leave the country. 0:36:53.600,0:36:56.320 I don't know where to go now, after thirty days, 0:36:56.320,0:36:59.880 I should leave the country, go back to Somalia... 0:37:02.520,0:37:04.600 We've had like 10 people coming from 0:37:04.600,0:37:07.760 Iran, Afghanistan or Iraq in 2000. 0:37:07.760,0:37:10.000 And now we have thousands of them. 0:37:10.000,0:37:12.760 It's not something that happened by accident. 0:37:12.760,0:37:17.000 We didn't leave them any choice back[br]in their countries, so they came here. 0:37:17.000,0:37:19.600 Most of them did not really want to come to Greece. 0:37:19.600,0:37:24.040 I really want to be in any country better than this. 0:37:24.040,0:37:26.120 We are not animals, we are human beings. 0:37:26.120,0:37:28.640 We can walk, we can eat, we can talk. 0:37:28.640,0:37:31.640 So please, I'm begging the two of you now, 0:37:31.640,0:37:34.680 anybody who will see us on here, tell them 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 we ask them that they should allow us to go, please!