AP VIDEO: In Greece, migrants clash with police in bid to force their way to the border and travel to central Europe. CostasKantouris spoke to asylum seekers desperate to leave Greek camps.
By COSTAS KANTOURIS and THANASSIS STAVRAKISA migrant woman with a child pushing with riot police outside a refugee camp in the village of Diavata, west of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Friday, April 5, 2019. Clashes broke out Thursday between migrants and Greek police outside a camp in northern Greece, where hundreds gathered in the hope of reviving a route that saw hundreds of thousands enter more prosperous countries in Europe.
Several hundred migrants, many having spent the night outside the camp in tents or sleeping rough, were involved in the clashes in a cornfield where police set up several blockades with buses and lines of riot police officers. Migration Minister Dimitris Vitsas issued a plea to migrants to return to camps that are officially known as hospitality centers.“There was a false report being distributed that the border would be opened. We have informed the hospitality centers that is not the case,” Vitsas told state-run ERT television.
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