Migrants temporarily sheltered at the Tae Kwon Do stadium of Palaio Faliro were transfered to other sports facilities at Hellenikon as Tae Kwon Do European championships kick off at the stadium on Sunday. The lack of a plan, however, once again resulted in absolute chaos. State Real Estate Agency (ETAAD) Managing Director George Terzakis was told on Thursday to gather the migrants who reportedly headed to the area to be told that there was still no official briefing as to how the 250 remaining migrants would be removed.

The migrants at the facility had been informed that they would leave on Wednesday, and this resulted in a number of them collecting their belongings and waiting outside the facilities. At 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, an urban bus with the capacity to fill 120 people arrived at the area and filled up at around 10.30 a.m. whereas another bus arrived at 11.30 a.m. but left half empty. A third bus took 40 migrants from Iran to Hellenikon. It is believed that a total of 200 people, mainly families, were transported.

A number of migrants decided to leave on their own, heading to Hellenikon, only to find that they weren’t being accepted as only migrants that were part of the organized program were being taken in. Others had left to explore other areas only to return after sunset as they had nowhere else to sleep for the night.

The only ones who managed to get transported after long delays were 100 migrants from Morocco who were taken to Corinth in police vans where they will remain until they are deported.

Chaos broke out when 250 migrants continued to remain in the Olympic facilities so that cleaners who came to prepare for the championships to be held there arrived at 9a.m. finding themselves unable to proceed with their duties. The police invited the migrants to vacate the premises but they weren’t told where they would be taken.