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2020-03-08 Europe

Vigilantes Along Greek Border With Turkey Say, ‘No More' to Migrants

[DNYUZ] EVROS, Greece ‐ The farmers and pensioners wore black clothes and heavy boots, imitating Greece’s special forces, and trod along a rural road on a night patrol looking for migrants trying to cross the northern land border with Turkey. "We’ll get you next time!" they shouted at a small group of men who had made it over and fled.

Two hundred miles to the south, on the border island of Lesbos, locals angrily blocked a dinghy full of migrants from Turkey, including a pregnant woman and children, from getting off on a pier.

"No more!" they yelled, cursing.

On land and at sea, one thing is clear along Greece’s meandering border with Turkey: This is not 2015 anymore. Then, while much of Europe was convulsed with anger and fear as more than a million asylum seekers poured in from distant wars, Greeks helped rescue refugees at sea, or greeted them with empathy as they traversed the country en route to northern Europe.

The citizens of the island of Lesbos were even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Now, the reaction is overt hostility. A new center-right Greek government has temporarily suspended accepting asylum applications and pledged to summarily expel those who come in order to discourage migrants. And ordinary citizens, many of whom who are fed up, are taking matters into their own hands.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-08 05:09|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Greeks at Marathon!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-08 05:48|| 2020-03-08 05:48|| Front Page Top

#2 The citizens of the island of Lesbos were even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

So the very actions that led to the destruction of these people's peaceful home are deemed worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

I think we have a potential Shitshow.
1. Outlandish absurdity
2. Gross incompetence
3. Ostentatious virtue-signaling

What's Greek for Shitshow?
Kακαιθέαμα?
Kaki-theama?

Posted by Lex 2020-03-08 07:31|| 2020-03-08 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 this has been a shitshow lex

Posted by Chris 2020-03-08 11:55|| 2020-03-08 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember that time in 1241 when Mongol refugees tried to culturally enrich Europe?

Or that time when Ottoman refugees successfully enriched Constantinople in 1453?

Well, this time will be even better!

Posted by charger 2020-03-08 15:14|| 2020-03-08 15:14|| Front Page Top

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