Greece: stranded refugees and migrants clash with police in Idomeni

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Greece: stranded refugees and migrants clash with police in Idomeni
By Sarah Chappell | With REUTERS, APF



"Every day we have tension, protests and pressure at the border"

IDOMENI: -- Protesting refugees and migrants on Tuesday clashed with Greek police in the border town of Idomeni, next to the closed crossing between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Tension flared as police officers tried to move people away from the railway tracks, where there have been daily protests calling for the Macedonian government to reopen the border crossing.

Some of the protesters threw rocks and stones at the police.

“Shutting the border has had the general effect of angering people,” said Anestis Ischnopolous, a field coordinator for the NGO Praksis.

“They are still hoping that they might cross, but the border remains shut. And every day we have tension, protests and pressure at the border.”

More than 11,000 refugees and migrants are gathered in Idomeni next to the closed border crossing.

Despite the squalid conditions in the sprawling makeshift camp, most of them do not want to leave.

Some are not ready to accept that the border will not re-open.

Others fear that if they go somewhere else, the conditions may be no better. Yet they will be further away from the border and, thus, further away from the chance to continue their journey to western Europe.

The Greek government has been providing buses since Friday to move people to official reception centres elsewhere in Greece.

However, by late Monday, only about 1,000 people had boarded the buses.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-30

[jaidam]

The mask slipped. What a balls up, there are no weeping children and women in the photograph. Just a rampaging bunch of thugs spitting the dummy when they learned the free stuff was out of reach today. Still, I'd rather see this mayhem happening in Greece than England, at least there is a chance they will get sent home when the Greeks get bored of the religious violence and hate.

[lovelomsak]

These guys are the worst there is. They are to cowardly to fight for there country but will fight the people who are helping. when the help is to slow ,or not to the standard they want.I say send them all back in a leaky boat.I would not want to live any where near this scum.

Edited March 30, 2016 by lovelomsak

[AhFarangJa]

Agreed....most of them running from fighting for their country. Probably pissed off at not being able to charge their smartphones...Why do they not go to a Muslim country.....say...Saudi Arabia?.......we all know the answer to that one.

[bark]

Agreed....most of them running from fighting for their country. Probably pissed off at not being able to charge their smartphones...Why do they not go to a Muslim country.....say...Saudi Arabia?.......we all know the answer to that one.

They should be sent back to Syria. Put in camps, until ISIS is removed. Then let them rebuild their country.

[godden]

Just the type of people Europe needs, i think not.

[SgtRock]

It is very strange that the MSM, especially in the UK has went silent on the Migrant crises.

If I was a cynic I would say that it had something to do with an upcoming referendum. Good job I am not cynical

[SOTIRIOS]

.....better look at what is behind this imposed migration....

....what a horrible human mess.....

[steve187]

It is very strange that the MSM, especially in the UK has went silent on the Migrant crises.

If I was a cynic I would say that it had something to do with an upcoming referendum. Good job I am not cynical

What is ' MSM'

[SgtRock]

It is very strange that the MSM, especially in the UK has went silent on the Migrant crises.

If I was a cynic I would say that it had something to do with an upcoming referendum. Good job I am not cynical

What is ' MSM'

Maintream Media.

[steve187]

All the 'imigrants' causing trouble and the terrorist attacks help with the 'out' vote

[bassman]

If I had a vote in the UK (which I don't) my vote would be to exit that EU abortion. Most countries in the EU's economy are dragging behind the US and UK. As with the situation with these illegal immigrants, which is just another result of a failed political system. You have Merkel talking out her bum for all of Europe throwing the doors open and creating this problem not only in Greece but now all across Europe. While most of Europe wanted more checks and balances before committing to the horde.

The EU wants one nation, with 28 presidents, don't think that formula will ever work. From dwindling national defense spending, to economies that are stagnating at best with many failing, and intelligence systems that are dysfunctional the entire framework of the EU is broken. The EU is a few sponsoring nations with a lot of straphangers. The problem with governing this way is that the countries involved become more and more dependent on each other while in reality no one is doing anything, good example of this is the intelligence disasters coming out of both the Paris and Brussels attacks. Matter of fact the FBI is in Brussels now to help. What is the EU's security apparatus, does it exist in reality and off paper?

My advice to any with the option to exit the EU is run baby run!

[Baerboxer]

If I had a vote in the UK (which I don't) my vote would be to exit that EU abortion. Most countries in the EU's economy are dragging behind the US and UK. As with the situation with these illegal immigrants, which is just another result of a failed political system. You have Merkel talking out her bum for all of Europe throwing the doors open and creating this problem not only in Greece but now all across Europe. While most of Europe wanted more checks and balances before committing to the horde.

The EU wants one nation, with 28 presidents, don't think that formula will ever work. From dwindling national defense spending, to economies that are stagnating at best with many failing, and intelligence systems that are dysfunctional the entire framework of the EU is broken. The EU is a few sponsoring nations with a lot of straphangers. The problem with governing this way is that the countries involved become more and more dependent on each other while in reality no one is doing anything, good example of this is the intelligence disasters coming out of both the Paris and Brussels attacks. Matter of fact the FBI is in Brussels now to help. What is the EU's security apparatus, does it exist in reality and off paper?

My advice to any with the option to exit the EU is run baby run!

No the EU, has in many countries and their citizens don't one to be one nation.

Mrs. Merkel, her party and it's allies. Jucncke, Hollande and their left wing allies want that. They want a federal Europe with a socialist style government, where elections can't really change anything and the "party" decides and controls everything. Just like those failed so called people's democracies of the Warsaw Pact era.

And Merkel, the former East German Communist Party official and Stassi spy - wonder where she got those ideas?

I'd much rather see the UK and the other countries and people who don't want Merkel's <deleted> vision of "utopia" stay in and fight her and her supporters.

[The manic]

Arabs and muslims do not take no for answer. They refuse to obey western laws and obey only religious laws, (when it suits them). The activities of the rioters, criminals and traffickers at the borders of Europe summarizes why mass immigration is damaging to all the states in Europe.

[The manic]

It is very strange that the MSM, especially in the UK has went silent on the Migrant crises.

If I was a cynic I would say that it had something to do with an upcoming referendum. Good job I am not cynical

it's censorship by omission. The BBC simply does not report unpalatable truths because they do not accord with the PC view of reality.

[wabothai]

Opening the borders in Macedonia will have the same effect as that German woman giving a warm welcome to the "refugees".

Besides tourism so much needed is on the rise in that country. Opening the borders would be suicide.

I hope they stand strong no matter what those weak man in Brussels decide.

[Steely Dan]

The mask slipped. What a balls up, there are no weeping children and women in the photograph. Just a rampaging bunch of thugs spitting the dummy when they learned the free stuff was out of reach today. Still, I'd rather see this mayhem happening in Greece than England, at least there is a chance they will get sent home when the Greeks get bored of the religious violence and hate.

I'm surprised some of the attending press didn't dress up in drag to photo one another as female refugees.