Elaionas accommodation site (closed)
Polykarpou street, Elaionas, Athens (municipal plot) · Athens, Attica
Elaionas was a refugee accommodation site in Athens, on a municipal plot on Polykarpou street in the Elaionas district. It opened on 16 August 2015 and was formally closed and handed to the City of Athens on 12 December 2022, according to Skai. It is listed here as a closed site and no longer accommodates anyone. No capacity or head count is published for the closed site.
Key facts
- Type
- Controlled temporary accommodation centre
- Run by
- Formerly the Ministry of Migration and Asylum; the plot was handed to the City of Athens on 12 December 2022
- Address
- Polykarpou street, Elaionas, Athens (municipal plot), Athens, Attica
- Capacity
- No capacity is published for this site.
- People counted there
- No count of the people there is published for this site.
- Status
- No longer in use (as at 12 December 2022)
- Opened
- 16 August 2015 (Skai).
Background
AIDA lists Elaionas with Schisto and Diavata as the only three mainland facilities officially established before 2020. Skai reports that it operated for seven years.
Reported incidents
No reported incident is listed for this site. An incident is listed only if a mainstream, court, police or official source reports it, so an empty list does not mean that none occurred.
Sources
- Skai, 12 December 2022: the Elaionas site handed to the City of Athens · press
- AIDA / ECRE, Country Report Greece, 2025 Update (July 2026) · third-party source, not official
The Ministry of Migration and Asylum publishes a page for each reception structure with its name and address, but no coordinates, and its list is not kept up to date. For the five island centres the figures are those of the National Situational Picture (NSP) of 1 September 2026. For the mainland they are those of the ministry's reply to a parliamentary question of 6 February 2026 (figures at 31 December 2025), as published by Refugee Support Aegean, with the table of the AIDA country report (July 2026) for June 2025 beside them. Capacity is the figure each source gives, nominal unless the page says otherwise, and is not a headcount; where sources differ, each figure is shown with its date. For Samos and Leros the pre-removal detention places that the ministry's pages describe are subtracted from the NSP figure, and our Samos and Leros pages say so. Positions are placed by hand from map features and addresses and are approximate. No cost is published for any single site. Incidents are listed only where a mainstream, court, police or official source reports them, with the stage reached; an empty list does not mean that none occurred.