Chaos and tension in Idomeni - Stuck thousand immigrants
Chaos and tension in Idomeni - Stuck thousand immigrants
In closing rail progressed, a while ago, Afghan group Idomeni. About 150 people threw fencing along railway lines, near the camp in Eidomeni to protest the ban on crossing the neutral zone.
The Afghans sat on the lines, stating determined not to leave, if not allowed to continue their journey.
A few kilometers from the border, hundreds of Afghans who have traveled for months from their homeland, they see to dissipate their hopes of reaching their own promised land ...
Afghans locked in a breath of the "European dream".
Above the neutral zone Greece - FYROM played the last days another drama: people who have traveled thousands of kilometers from Afghanistan, crumble when police their neighbor told that now can not pass. This results in creating frustration, as when the Afghans realize that they are trapped, protest and caused tension.
On the other hand, at the gas station at the height of Kilkis, which have landed more than 3500 refugees, waiting to them carrying the neutral zone, hundreds of desperate from an extended delay, loaded their few belongings, they get from their children hand and start on foot to travel the 20 km distance to Idomeni ...
An endless human convoy is the image of the road, 20 km before the Evzones. Next to the cars develop high speeds, families walking with their children on the shoulders, arms, in carts. Some barefoot, others with chiliompalomena shoes, children who just learned to walk, invalids in carriages, everyone thought that they come closer to the "European dream" if you reach Idomeni.
What if volunteers, members of UNHCR and Doctors Without Borders inform that the buffer zone will be forced to wait for days because the "tap", in terms of Macedonia, has tightened. They want to be there, even if they are told that Afghans do not pass or they will need and of there to wait.
According to police, about 600 Afghans have been "cut" so far and remain in the camp.
"Better to die in Greece but to go back," says the 24 year old Karim desperate. With a degree in English literature, he says he escaped from the Taliban and traveled a month to get here and finally to see-off the trip. Weeping beside him, the 36 year old Karimi wondering why did not inform them in advance that they could not pass.
"We had to stop us in Turkey and tell us that it will not allow us to go from here" he says.
However, the camp is a temporary stay in Eidomeni we visited today and the German consul Ingo Von Foss, is the last day crammed full, with more than 1,500 people. Queues are huge in front of the scene that is distributing food and water, as in skini- "closet with clothes," as they called the volunteers who diacheirizontai- to distribute clothes and shoes. Tail is in front of the neutral zone, since the controls from the neighboring country have become extremely stringent and can only spend those Syrians and Iraqis have a passport or identity and their memo. indeed submitted and body control while done and thorough check of their papers.
Only something young girls who sit waiting their turn, enjoy the sunny day. They are happy because "escaped from the war in Syria" and we were forced to travel under such difficult conditions. They are dressed, they have strongly painted their eyes and wear colorful headscarves. Dream arrive in Finland, where are their relatives and to continue with their lives.
Accommodation and gas station ...
Another, a large camp has been set up at the gas station, at the height of Polykastrou, which is the first stop of buses transporting refugees from Athens. Already, UNHCR has set up two large tents with a capacity of 150-200 people each and 46 family tents with a capacity of ten people each. At the same time, there are 11 heated tents MSF for the stay of people and some other areas of Doctors, used for services.
In essence it is the development of a camp that can accommodate about 2000 people, and have entered the toilets and there are tents for primary health care. "I have been here four days and I was traveling with my wife and my child other 40 from Afghanistan," says Omour and wondering if you should start to go walking up the neutral zone, although aware that the past two days has been banned crossing the compatriots.
Ally the only ... good weather days as "locked" refugees find opportunity to wash their clothes and to stretch out the few trees of the gas station and the children to forget for a moment, playing ball, as if gone contain a excursion .. .
In closing rail progressed, a while ago, Afghan group Idomeni. About 150 people threw fencing along railway lines, near the camp in Eidomeni to protest the ban on crossing the neutral zone.
The Afghans sat on the lines, stating determined not to leave, if not allowed to continue their journey.
A few kilometers from the border, hundreds of Afghans who have traveled for months from their homeland, they see to dissipate their hopes of reaching their own promised land ...
Afghans locked in a breath of the "European dream".
Above the neutral zone Greece - FYROM played the last days another drama: people who have traveled thousands of kilometers from Afghanistan, crumble when police their neighbor told that now can not pass. This results in creating frustration, as when the Afghans realize that they are trapped, protest and caused tension.
On the other hand, at the gas station at the height of Kilkis, which have landed more than 3500 refugees, waiting to them carrying the neutral zone, hundreds of desperate from an extended delay, loaded their few belongings, they get from their children hand and start on foot to travel the 20 km distance to Idomeni ...
An endless human convoy is the image of the road, 20 km before the Evzones. Next to the cars develop high speeds, families walking with their children on the shoulders, arms, in carts. Some barefoot, others with chiliompalomena shoes, children who just learned to walk, invalids in carriages, everyone thought that they come closer to the "European dream" if you reach Idomeni.
What if volunteers, members of UNHCR and Doctors Without Borders inform that the buffer zone will be forced to wait for days because the "tap", in terms of Macedonia, has tightened. They want to be there, even if they are told that Afghans do not pass or they will need and of there to wait.
According to police, about 600 Afghans have been "cut" so far and remain in the camp.
"Better to die in Greece but to go back," says the 24 year old Karim desperate. With a degree in English literature, he says he escaped from the Taliban and traveled a month to get here and finally to see-off the trip. Weeping beside him, the 36 year old Karimi wondering why did not inform them in advance that they could not pass.
"We had to stop us in Turkey and tell us that it will not allow us to go from here" he says.
However, the camp is a temporary stay in Eidomeni we visited today and the German consul Ingo Von Foss, is the last day crammed full, with more than 1,500 people. Queues are huge in front of the scene that is distributing food and water, as in skini- "closet with clothes," as they called the volunteers who diacheirizontai- to distribute clothes and shoes. Tail is in front of the neutral zone, since the controls from the neighboring country have become extremely stringent and can only spend those Syrians and Iraqis have a passport or identity and their memo. indeed submitted and body control while done and thorough check of their papers.
Only something young girls who sit waiting their turn, enjoy the sunny day. They are happy because "escaped from the war in Syria" and we were forced to travel under such difficult conditions. They are dressed, they have strongly painted their eyes and wear colorful headscarves. Dream arrive in Finland, where are their relatives and to continue with their lives.
Accommodation and gas station ...
Another, a large camp has been set up at the gas station, at the height of Polykastrou, which is the first stop of buses transporting refugees from Athens. Already, UNHCR has set up two large tents with a capacity of 150-200 people each and 46 family tents with a capacity of ten people each. At the same time, there are 11 heated tents MSF for the stay of people and some other areas of Doctors, used for services.
In essence it is the development of a camp that can accommodate about 2000 people, and have entered the toilets and there are tents for primary health care. "I have been here four days and I was traveling with my wife and my child other 40 from Afghanistan," says Omour and wondering if you should start to go walking up the neutral zone, although aware that the past two days has been banned crossing the compatriots.
Ally the only ... good weather days as "locked" refugees find opportunity to wash their clothes and to stretch out the few trees of the gas station and the children to forget for a moment, playing ball, as if gone contain a excursion .. .
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