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Greece refugee crisis described as 'total chaos' as migrants swim with holidaymakers

• 23:07, 8 August 2015
• By Karen Rockett

Around 50,000 migrants arrived in Greece last month with some pictured on Saturday coming to Kos, Chios and Lesbos on inflatables and makeshift boats

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Afghan migrants arrive on the Greek island of Kos after paddling across a part of the Aegean Sea

Holidaymakers swim in the sea just feet away from migrants coming in to the Greek Islands on inflatables and makeshift boats.
Around 50,000 migrants arrived in Greece last month according to figures from the UN refugee agency.
So many arrive each day that pictures like these showing holidaymakers in the sea with migrants are becoming the norm.
The refugee crisis on the Greek islands of Kos, Chios and Lesbos is “total chaos”, the UN refugee agency UNHCR warned yesterday, with inadequate accommodation, water and sanitation.

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Afghan migrants arrive on the Greek island of Kos after paddling across a part of the Aegean Sea

The organisation’s European Director, Vincent Cochetel, said facilities for the refugees on the Greek islands were “totally inadequate”, after more migrants arrived in Greece in July 2015 than in the whole of the previous year.
Greece’s EU partners must do more to ease the burden, he said, but Greece must “lead and co-ordinate”.
“On most of the islands there is no reception capacity, people are not sleeping under any form of roof. So it’s total chaos on the islands.”

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Tourists lie on a beach as mmigrants arrive on a dinghy at the Greek island of Kos

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the problem “surpasses” Greece’s abilities, and that his country’s economic problems meant it was facing a humanitarian “crisis within a crisis”.
Meanwhile French police in Calais have backed calls to bring in the British army to help tackle the deepening migrant crisis there.
Bruno Noel, head of the Alliance union for police deployed to Calais’s port and Eurotunnel site, said his force is “doing Britain’s dirty work”, and that the situation could soon become unmanageable as migrant numbers swell and police ranks are further depleted.

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Tourists lie on a beach as migrants arrive on a dinghy at the Greek island of Kos

He said: “We have only 15 permanent French border police at the Eurotunnel site. Can you imagine how derisory this is given the situation?
“So I say, why not bring in the British army, and let them work together with the French?”
The call for British reinforcements was first made by Kevin Hurley, police and crime commission for Surrey police, who proposed “sending in the Gurkhas”.
Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, suggested dispatching the British army over the Channel to check lorries to stop people illegally entering Britain, calling the situation around Calais, “virtually lawless".

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