Migrants allowed to leave Greek camps while asylum applications processed

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Migrants allowed to leave Greek camps while asylum applications processed



ATHENS: -- Migrants on the Greek islands are being allowed out of the detention camps where they’re being housed, while they wait for their asylum applications to be processed.

Giorgos Kyritsis, a spokesman for the SOMP agency, which is coordinating Athens’ response to the refugee crisis, confirmed the news.

The rule applies to those seeking asylum who have spent at least 25 days in the camps. They must stay on the island and remain available to the authorities.

Pope Francis addresses refugees

The move comes days after Pope Francis visited a camp in Lesbos and returned to Rome with 12 Syrians (three families).

He has come under fire for bringing back Muslims, rather than Syrian Christians.

Addressing the refugees, the Pontiff said:
“Forgive the closure and indifference of our societies that fear the change in lifestyle and mentality that your presence requires. Treated like a weight, a problem, a cost, you are instead a gift.”

Idomeni

Some 50,000 people are currently stranded across Greece. Of those, around 10,000 are stuck in a makeshift camp near Idomeni, on the Greek-Macedonian border.

Migrants in the camp say food is scarce and information scarcer still and tensions have been escalating for weeks.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-04-20

[jaidam]

My sincere condolences to the Greek people trying to live their lives in the proximity of these so called migrants. Keen observers will already have seen dozens(hundreds/thousands) of the videos of their behavior up in Calais when they roam around outside their camp terrorizing the Calais residents with their thuggish mass violent sprees and hateful behavior.

Send them straight back where they came from and save yourselves the never ending hassles.

[klauskunkel]

oh, they have application forms now, maybe even with questions on them? good job

[Baerboxer]

"“Forgive the closure and indifference of our societies that fear the change in lifestyle and mentality that your presence requires. Treated like a weight, a problem, a cost, you are instead a gift.”

So this leader of one of the most corrupt organizations the world has known thinks all Europeans should change their lifestyles to accommodate the wishes and presence of these illegal migrants.

Unbelievable. Perhaps he's truly ignorant of history and world current affairs. Wonder when he'll build the Vatican's first Mosque? Or impose Sharia?

[sweatalot]

They should always be allowed to leave their camp

- but only to go back where they came from

Edited April 20, 2016 by sweatalot

[Steely Dan]

And here is another video not front loaded with women and children.