The racism virus has infected also pupils in Giannitsa, Central Macedonia. Pupils from the vocational high school held a protest against refugees and migrants on Friday. Holding Greek flags, they chanted “Illegals out of schools.”
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Some 50 pupils first occupied their school and later marched through the center of the town with main slogan “Illegals out of schools” and singing “Macedonia is Greek.”
A reporter of local media logos pellas who was covering the protest was threatened by a pupil. “I break your camera,” the teenager boy told the reporter.
As the seed of racism is spreading especially in Northern Greece, residents of Karitsa village by Larissa, Central Greece, blocked the main road late on Wednesday in order to prevent a bus with 40 unaccompanied minors from reaching a hotel for the children’s resettlement.
The chairman of the village and the local community had decided to not accept more refugees, after 73 people were resettled in another hotel there. Led by the chairman, the locals blocked both the entrance and exit of the village.
New Democracy reportedly expelled a local official from Kozani due to racist and bigot posts on social media. Reason for the man to be kicked out of the conservative party was a post on Facebook where he wrote “these blacks […] should be thrown in the Aegean Sea.”
Is this really “racism” or something else?
This (desperation) policy of dumping migrants into empty hotels is hard on small communities. Think about it – 73 migrants placed into one small Greek village is a lot to socially absorb. They don’t speak Greek or understand local customs – their presence can overwhelm community life. I can imagine that villagers might actually panic at the prospect of another 40….because of another empty hotel. The hotel owners, often absentee, make money but the toll is on the community. If the 40 are unaccompanied minors will they go to the local school? When they don’t speak Greek? A lot of problems here…
It is different in Athens where migrants placed into flats in neighbourhoods do not upset the social balance.
dumping…
how many migrants have been resettled in peloponnesos?