Athens to turn refugee camp into public park

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Athens to turn refugee camp into public park

STORY: Athens to turn refugee camp into public park DATELINE: Dec. 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: Athens CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the temporary accommodation center 2. SOUNDBITE (Greek): KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS, Greek Prime Minister 3. various of the temporary accommodation center 4. various of asylum seekers STORYLINE: The Greek government said on Monday that the Eleonas camp for asylum seekers, the country's first official temporary accommodation center in the Greek capital, will be turned into a park for the local community. Eleonas was built in a former industrial zone in the autumn of 2015 to accommodate 2,000 people. The last group of its residents were transferred to other facilities this November. On Monday, Greece's Migration and Asylum Ministry, which had temporarily assumed responsibility for the 1,000-hectare site from the City of Athens, signed a handover agreement. SOUNDBITE (Greek): KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS, Greek Prime Minister "The handover of this site today back to the C

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