Gerakini military camp, Malakasa, 19011 Attica

Malakasa Reception Facility (Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) Malakasa)

Greece

Status

In use

2025

Type: Secure reception centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Not Available

Management: Not Available

Detains: Adult men, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Conditions complaints?
3471
984

28 November 2020

YES

2023

Greece

31,975

Migration Detainees

30,631

Migration Detainee Entries

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ABOUT

The "Malakasa Reception Facility" is a secure reception center located in Malakasa, Attica region of Greece, with a capacity of 3,471 places. It operates under the Ministry of Migration and Asylum and is intended for the reception and temporary accommodation of asylum seekers. ....

NEWS & TESTIMONY
2024

Testimony recorded by Border Violence Monitoring Network/Detention Landscapes: “If you raise your head and try to look at [us], [we] will give you the ultimate experience of violence”. "The respondent noted that ther [...]

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FACILITY NAMES
Malakasa Reception Facility (Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) Malakasa)
Location

Country: Greece

City & Region: Gerakini military camp, Malakasa, 19011 Attica, Europe

Latitude, Longitude: 38.239922, 23.779786

Contact Information
ris.ric.malakasa@migration.gov.gr

+30 213 138 5005 (Secretariat)
+30 213 138 5000 (Director)
+30 213 138 5024 (Deputy Director)

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2025
In use
2023
Closed/ceased migrant detention
2020
In use
2020
In use
2020
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Secure reception centre
2020
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Temporary Reception Facility of Malakasa (Δομή Προσωρινής Υποδοχής Μαλακάσας)
2020

DETAINEES

Demographics

Adult men

2024

Unaccompanied minors

2020

Families

2020

Adult women

2020

Adult men

2020
Categories of detainees

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2024

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2024
Countries of Origin

Country #1 Syria

Country #2 Palestine

Country #3 Egypt

Country #4 Afghanistan

2023
At-Risk Populations

Asylum seekers

2025

Asylum seekers

2024

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 3471

2025

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 1500

2020
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
984
28 November 2020
1180
14 April 2020
1200
26 March 2020
Reports of Detainee Overpopulation at Facility

No

2020

LENGTH OF DETENTION

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2023
2023
2023
2020
2020
2020
2020

CARCERAL INDICATORS

External Security Regime

Secure

2020

STAFF

SEGREGATION

Family Segregation

No

2020

CELLS

At Least Three Square Meters Per Detainee

No

2023

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

HEALTH

Barriers to care
Barriers to Care
Obvs. Date
Inadequate food or water provision
2023

MONITORING & ACCESS

Monitors & Civil Society Access
Access?
Type of Institution
Obsv. Date
Yes
National Red Cross Federation
2020
Yes
International Organization for Migration
2020
Yes
International or regional human rights mechanisms
2020

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

NEWS & TESTIMONY

2024

Testimony recorded by Border Violence Monitoring Network/Detention Landscapes: “If you raise your head and try to look at [us], [we] will give you the ultimate experience of violence”. "The respondent noted that there was a doctor in the camp from 12:00 until 15:00 who worked together with a translator, so it was “very easy to communicate” and to get medical assistance."
(See: https://detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/a73yiaqhjc)