Migrants Stranded in Greece Try to Break into Macedonia
Date
11/29/2015 12:26:57 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Migrantstried on Thursday to break intoMacedoniafromGreece defying the tougherborderrestrictions imposed by the Macedonian authorities last week newswires reported.
About 200migrantsassaulted the barbed wirefencenear the Greekbordertown ofIdomeniand clashed with Macedonian police. Several of them ran across intoMacedoniabefore police returned them to the Greek side of theborder AFP reported.
Macedonian riot police used batons to push back themigrantswho had opened a gap in the wire fence.
Up to 1500migrants coming mainly from Algeria Morocco Iran and Pakistan have been stranded nearIdomenisince last week afterMacedoniarestricted passage in the wake of the deadly terror attacks in Paris. Only those fleeing armed conflict in Syria Afghanistan and Iraq are allowed to cross as they are typically being granted asylum in the EU.
Some of the strandedmigrantshave pitched tents on the railway line that links the Greek sea port ofThessalonikiand the Macedonian capitalSkopje halting rail services on the route. Some have been protesting by refusing to eat while others have sewn their mouths shut in protest.
Macedoniaimposed the new restrictions after its neighbours Serbia and Croatia said thatthey would turn backmigrantswho weren't from Syria Iraq or Afghanistan and were trying to cross into their territory fromMacedoniatotravel on to the European Union.
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