With 6 to 8 riot police squads and some 4000 policemen, Greece launched an operation on Wednesday morning in order to evacuate railway tracks from migrants in Idomeni, at the borders between Greece and FYROM.
Before the operation started, police had sent away journalists and cameramen as well as teams of Non-Governmental-Organizations that provide essentials for the economic migrants who are stuck in Greece and are not allowed to enter FYROM.
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The migrants are from countries other than Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, FYROM saw obliged to follow the wishes of the European Union and prohibit so-called “economic migrants” from entering its soil and then travel further to the North like Germany or Sweden.
‘No cameras; delete now’, plain clothes police drive up to us and tell us.
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Of course, this “pre-selection” prohibit also asylum seekers from seeking shelter in safe countries, but these are small letters in the EU’s hysteria chapter.
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According to latest reports from Idomeni, the police operation is going on ‘peaceful’ and some 400 out of the estimated 1,200 migrants have already got into buses to be transported to Athens. They are supposed to find provisional shelter in the Tae Kwo Do stadium in Palaio Faliro. Nobody knows what will happen to them next.
Bus convoy full with migrants leaving Idomeni for Athens
A couple of days ago, Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas had announced that an operation would take place to free the rails from the occupying migrants who have been there for the last 15 days. The blocking of the railway tracks has brought the transport of thousands of containers into halt causing big economic damage. Yesterday, Greek media reported that Hewlett Packard had change the transport route for some 100 containers from the port of Piraeus to Central Europe through Idomeni. The alternative route was to go via Slovenia.
With this operation, the Greek government hopes that it will send the message to other “economic migrants” to avoid the Greek-FYROM route while trying to reach central and north Europe.
UNHCR had to leave camp this morning too, but they’re allowed to monitor situation again. According to them evacuation is peaceful at moment
For more updates check with Twitter #Idomeni where many journalists and NGO-members report about the police operation
