Schisto accommodation site
Schistou Avenue (former Stefanakis army camp), Perama 18863 · Perama, Attica
Schisto accommodation site is a controlled temporary accommodation centre for people in the asylum procedure on the former Stefanakis army camp on Schistou Avenue, Perama, west of Piraeus. 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 1,551 places, an actual capacity of 1,017 places and 513 residents at 31 December 2025. AIDA's table for June 2025 gives 1,221 places and 552 people.
Key facts
- Type
- Controlled temporary accommodation centre
- Run by
- Reception and Identification Service (RIS), Ministry of Migration and Asylum
- Address
- Schistou Avenue (former Stefanakis army camp), Perama 18863, Perama, Attica
- Capacity
- 1,551 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
- 513 (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
- Formally established by joint ministerial decision 3/14762 (Gazette B 3720, 16 November 2016), according to AIDA.
Background
AIDA lists Schisto with Elaionas and Diavata as the only three mainland facilities officially established before 2020. The Greek Ombudsperson found in 2024 high concrete fences, and residents and staff passing through a magnetic gate, x-ray scanning and turnstiles with card checks at every entry and exit.
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.
- 23 September 2024Reported
ERT reported that on 23 September 2024 the camp, then home to about 600 people, was evacuated as a precaution after a tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas overturned on a nearby road, and that roads were closed. This was an accident and not a crime.
Sources
- Ministry of Migration and Asylum: page of the Schisto site (read on 4 October 2026) · official source
- Refugee Support Aegean (RSA), March 2026: figures from the Ministry reply (ref. 24237) of 6 February 2026 to parliamentary question 2309/177 · third-party source, not official
- AIDA / ECRE, Country Report Greece, 2025 Update (July 2026) · third-party source, not official
- ERT, 23 September 2024: the Schisto facility evacuated after a tanker overturned · press
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.