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Macedonia Sends Hundreds of Migrants back to Greece |
2016-03-16 |
[AnNahar] Some 1,500 The desperate group of men, women and kiddies had set off from an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek side on Monday and waded thigh-deep through a river to get into Macedonia, where they were stopped by troops. "Yesterday we had a large group of illegal "Without any incident or use of force, they were blocked and in the early morning hours they were returned to Greece." Back on the Greek side, however, AFP news hounds said they had seen at least two men who appeared to have been beaten, while a Greek government source said the A group of around 80 journalists and activists who were detained by Macedonian police after traveling with the group were also released and allowed to return to Greece. The An AFP video journalist who was with them said the Macedonian army had allowed the "They put us on army trucks, took us to a location some 10 minutes from Idomeni where the fence is broken, and sent us back through there," he said. The Macedonian police said 1,500 had managed to cross into Macedonia before being returned, and another 600 were prevented from entering. The returns appeared to surprise the Greek authorities, who had said earlier Tuesday that some 700 refugees and "There wasn't in any case an official request for readmission from Skopje, and no return through official crossing points," said the Greek government source. "Nearly all the refugees have come back through an unguarded location," added a local Greek police source. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meanwhile denounced the "criminal" attitude of people who appeared to have orchestrated the Greek authorities said the ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... if they stayed in Greece, the ANA news agency reported. |
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