Report from Greece. They just do not know what they can do.

Greece: "Humanitarian Aid" Organization's People-Smuggling.

Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI) describes itself as a "Greek nonprofit organization that provides emergency response and humanitarian aid in times of crisis...." It has reportedly abetted the illegal entry into Greece of 70,000 immigrants since 2015, providing the "nonprofit" with half a billion euros per year.

ECRI evidently received 2,000 euros from each illegal immigrant it helped to enter Greece. In addition, its members created a business for "integrating refugees" into Greek society, granting it 5,000 euros per immigrant per year from various government programs (in education, housing and nutrition).

With the government of Greece seemingly at a loss as to how to handle its refugee crisis and safeguard the security of its citizens, it is particularly dismaying to discover that the major NGO whose mandate is to provide humanitarian aid to immigrants is instead profiting from smuggling them.

On August 28, thirty members of the Greek NGO Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI) were arrested for their involvement in a people-smuggling network that has been operating on the island of Lesbos since 2015. According to a statement released by Greek police, as a result of the investigation that led to the arrests, "The activities of an organised criminal network that systematically facilitated the illegal entry of foreigners were fully exposed."

Among the activities uncovered were forgery, espionage and the illegal monitoring of both the Greek coastguard and the EU border agency, Frontex, for the purpose of gleaning confidential information about Turkish refugee flows. The investigation also led to the discovery of an additional six Greeks and 24 foreign nationals implicated in the case.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12960/greece-people-smuggling

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In spite of its stated mission and non-profit profile, however, ECRI -- according to Greek authorities, has earned considerable sums of money from its serving as a conduit for illegal activities. ECRI evidently received 2,000 euros from each illegal immigrant it helped to enter Greece. In addition, its members created a business for "integrating refugees" into Greek society, granting it 5,000 euros per immigrant per year from various government programs (in education, housing and nutrition). ERCI has reportedly abetted the illegal entry into Greece of 70,000 immigrants since 2015, providing the "non-profit" with half a billion euros per year.

This revelation, however, does not begin to cover the extent of the illegal activities surrounding the entry of migrants into Greece. In 2017, for instance, Greek authorities arrested 1,399 people-smugglers, some under the cover of "humanitarian" operations; and during the first four months of 2018, authorities arrested 25,594 illegal immigrants.

More worrisome than the literally steep price paid to people-smugglers by the immigrants themselves -- or that doled out by the Greek government in the form of integration subsidies -- is the toll the situation is taking on Greek society as a whole.

According to Greek police statistics, there were 75,707 robberies and burglaries reported in 2017. Of these cases only 15,048 were solved, and 4,207 were committed by aliens. In addition, the police estimate that more than 40% of serious crimes were committed by illegal immigrants. (Legal and illegal immigrants in Greece make up 10-15% of the total population.)

In 2016, Greek prisons reportedly contained 4,246 Greeks and 5,221 foreigners convicted of serious crimes: 336 for homicide; 101 for attempted homicide; 77 for rape; and 635 for robbery. In addition, thousands of cases are still pending trial.

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You'll get this but it'll be fun...

This is a sequence 66,86,X,96
What is X?

And I don't think that my views are necessarily all postmodernist but I've come across Martin Heidegger before ... very interesting.

I have tried to keep racism and faith separate in my view the EU and world will reject refugees
No easy task, while I do see this happening ,in part at least for that reason, but after the basic reason, population growth is out of control, faith and race plays a roll
Not hard task for me to claim that, we teach evolution, but let every faith, all in love of phantom God, play too much of a roll in our life/government/culture
Different civilizations have some times, as much trouble living with one another as faith and race
We are seeing that in France a country the proves guests often, because of unchangeable differences,only live in the same poverty they fled home to get away from there is an answer treat faith ,every one of them as a not compulsory thing, do it no favors, pay it no special respect

Belly, you are under the belief that evolution denies faith. Evolution itself is mostly faith based, as it is not observable to most people and is merely accepted by teaching [indoctrination] alone. However development of species in their environment it taught in the Biblical account. I perceive you believe [have faith] evolution is the nail in the coffin of faith based creation because you have been taught it is such.

A denial of faith in a Creator has given us USSR Communism, Mao's China and North Korea, each of who put to death millions merely for belief in a loving Creator God. So your proposal to eradicate race and religion is not going to solve the human problem.

Forgiveness, reconciliation, self sacrifice, caring for ones enemy as one would care for themselves is part of the answer - and all these principles are taught by Christ and applies to all nations. Some religions teach to kill who you imagine is your enemy, even if he does not wish to kill you [example Israel / Jews]. That is stated in the Koran! hence the problem the EU faces.

Phillip S,
Thanks for that info, Let us hope that the AFP has good contacts with Greek police and are fully informed. It surely will pay us to keep a close eye on NGOs here and on the activities of Refugee support mobs in Aus.