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Ritsona accommodation site

75th km of the Athens-Lamia national road (2nd exit), Chalkida-Thiva ring road, Ritsona 34100 · Chalkida, Central Greece

Ritsona accommodation site is a controlled temporary accommodation centre for people in the asylum procedure on the Chalkida-Thiva ring road at Ritsona, in the Municipality of Chalkida on Evia. It is run by the Reception and Identification Service (RIS) of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum and is in use. The ministry's reply to a parliamentary question of 6 February 2026, as published by Refugee Support Aegean, gives a nominal capacity of 3,036 places, an actual capacity of 1,268 places and 1,535 residents at 31 December 2025. AIDA's table for June 2025 gives 1,246 people.

Key facts

Type
Controlled temporary accommodation centre
Run by
Reception and Identification Service (RIS), Ministry of Migration and Asylum
Address
75th km of the Athens-Lamia national road (2nd exit), Chalkida-Thiva ring road, Ritsona 34100, Chalkida, Central Greece
Capacity
3,036 places (as at 31 December 2025)Source: Ministry reply (ref. 24237, 6 February 2026) to parliamentary question 2309/177, as published by RSA: nominal capacity at 31 December 2025
People counted there
1,535 (as at 31 December 2025)Source: Ministry reply (ref. 24237, 6 February 2026) to parliamentary question 2309/177, as published by RSA: residents at 31 December 2025
Status
In use (as at 31 December 2025)
Opened
Not published on the ministry page.

Background

The site is one of the largest on the mainland by nominal capacity. AIDA reports months-long delays to asylum interviews at Ritsona in 2024 and 2025 because of gaps in interpretation services. The ministry reply published by RSA gives 1,535 residents at 31 December 2025, above the actual capacity it gives for that date. AIDA's capacity figure for June 2025 could not be confirmed against the other sources and is not repeated here.

Reported incidents

Listed only where a mainstream, court, police or official source reports the incident. Each entry names its source and the stage the case had reached, and no one is named.

  • 21 June 2024Arrested

    Kathimerini reported on 22 June 2024, citing a Hellenic Police statement, that a homicide was committed late on the evening of 21 June in an open-air area inside the facility, that the victim and those arrested were all residents, and that two residents were arrested the next morning and the case sent to the Chalkida prosecutor. Proto Thema reported the victim as a 29-year-old man and described those arrested as two men. No ages were given for the two arrested.

Sources

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.

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