On the 18th of September 2021, the infamous new Multi-Purpose Reception & Identification Centre (MPRIC) will open on Samos island in a symbolic moment showing the dangerous and harmful escalation of European migration policies that seek to deter people from seeking safety in Europe and detain those who make it. Some 500 people who remain in Vathy camp will be transferred to the new centre from the 20th September onwards. Located in a completely remote location, called Zervou, this centre is being sold as an improvement, but in reality, is a dystopian nightmare – with millions spent on surveillance systems and military grade barbed wire fences.