An information board outside the Petrou Ralli immigration police headquarters in Athens, where migrants line up to apply for a renewal of asylum. Police brutality is a fact. There is no eye, no non-governmental organisation constantly inside the detention centres. Greece has suffered a severe backlash against migrants, legal and illegal, as a six-year recession has driven unemployment to 27 percent. Coupled with this, Greece has over the past two decades become Europe’s frontline immigration state. Average approval rates for political asylum are 0.25 percent in the first committee and 9 percent in the second committee. “What shall we do? Await a slow death?”