Authorities on Tuesday morning cordoned off the area around an almost dilapidated apartment complex in Chlorakas village where migrants are staying without the provision of water or electricity.
Over 80 members of the Police Force and Anti-riot squad are there now to ensure that decisions taken at the Presidential Palace on Monday get to be implemented – beginning with the process of evacuation, Philenews reports.
Officers from Paphos Municipality and Chlorakas local authority as well as of the Interior Ministry’s Immigration Department and Asylum Service have begun the process of registration of those settled in the complex.
This should be completed by Friday and those found to be residing in Cyprus under the status of asylum seekers will be transferred to Kofinou Reception Centre.
That is, the Accommodation Center for Applicants for International Protection which operates under the supervision of the Asylum Service.
And those who are found to be residing with legal status on the island will be given two weeks to find another place to stay. As for the illegal migrants, those will be deported from the Republic, according to government spokesman Constantinos Letymbiotis.
Chorakas residents have demanded immediate and drastic measures related to the influx of illegal migrants in their village where, they argue, anarchy prevails.
Last week, migrants clashed with police after the electricity was cut at the specific building some of whose inhabitants were found to be stealing the electricity supply from a nearby Electricity Authority of Cyprus substation but also from neighbouring houses.
Police deployed chemical irritants to disperse the protesters.
