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    Migrants break through Macedonia-Greece border fence as backlog mounts

    Migrants break through Macedonia-Greece border fence as backlog mounts

    By Tim Hume and Vasco Cotovio, CNN
    Updated 12:14 PM ET, Mon February 29, 2016




    Story highlights


    • Clashes as French authorities begin to dismantle part of the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais
    • Violent scenes erupt on Greece-Macedonia border at popular waypoint on migrant route
    • U.N. warns new restrictions by countries along Balkan migration route will cause bottleneck in Greece



    (CNN)Scores of migrants broke through a barbed-wire security fence on the Greece-Macedonia border Monday, as tensions over new restrictions along the key land route into Europe boiled over in violent scenes.

    And more than 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) away in Calais, in northwest France, clashes erupted as authorities moved to dismantle structures at the "Jungle," an infamous migrant camp marked for partial demolition.

    Crowds at a border camp near the Greek village of Idomeni on the Macedonian border, a main transit point for refugees traveling to western Europe, used a large pole to ram through the border gate, while authorities deployed tear gas and rubber bullets in an attempt to keep the chanting crowd at bay.


    He said there was a sense of desperation building at Idomeni as the migrant flow across the border had been reduced, then stopped completely since Sunday evening. More than 7,000 refugees were at the camp in Idomeni, a facility that only has room for 3,000.

    Dangerous backlog in Greece


    The flashpoint comes just days after a meeting in Vienna last week at which ministers from countries along the main Balkan migration through Europe -- Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia -- agreed to tighten border controls to slow arrivals to a trickle.

    Critics warned the move -- which flies in the face of calls for a united European approach to the migrant crisis, with all countries sharing the burden -- would create a dangerous bottleneck in Greece, as the flow of migrants there from Turkey continued unabated.


    About three times as many migrants have arrived so far this year in Greece, the main gateway to Europe, as had by this point last year, and numbers are only expected to increase as the weather improves.


    Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European Union's commissioner of migration, home affairs and citizenship, told reporters on Thursday that the EU had until a forthcoming summit with Turkey on March 7 to curb migrant numbers or "the whole system will completely break down."


    Limiting the flow


    Austria has imposed a daily limit of 3,200 new arrivals and says it will accept no more than 80 asylum claims per day, while other countries along the route have capped new arrivals, or refused to permit entry to people from countries other than Syria or Iraq.

    Nedeljkovic said that only 310 people, exclusively Syrians and Iraqis with photo IDs, had been allowed into Macedonia on Saturday, and 92 on Sunday.

    She told CNN that Macedonia could only allow in refugees whom Balkan countries were able to accommodate and whom destination countries such as Germany or Austria could accept.


    The new restrictions along the Balkan land route were criticized last week by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, who warned the measures were exacerbating "chaos and misery all down the line."


    France: Clashes as the 'Jungle' clearances begin


    Elsewhere, clashes broke out Monday as French authorities began dismantling parts of the "Jungle,"the sprawling camp near the northwestern port of Calais that houses thousands of migrants seeking to enter the UK illegally.

    Footage showed skirmishes as authorities moved to tear down makeshift structures in the southern part of the Jungle, with migrants throwing rocks, and authorities deploying tear gas.



    A police officer throws a tear gas canister during the dismantling of half of the "Jungle" migrant camp.



    Calais authorities plan to demolish the southern half of the camp in response to the unsanitary conditions at the site. They say thousands will be moved into purpose-built shipping containers, equipped with heaters and electricity, in the northern part of the camp, and others housed elsewhere.

    Steve Barbet, spokesman for a regional official in Calais, told CNN the dismantling of the site began Monday morning, with about 30 shacks and tents taken down by midday.


    He said there were 100 police at the camp, who were there for the protection of social workers and members of the charity associations supporting migrants. He said members of a pro-migrant activist group had committed assaults and prevented 14 migrants from leaving the camp on Friday.




    Social workers were informing the refugees of their shelter options outside of the "Jungle," and helping them leave.

    The evacuation was expected to take a few weeks, Barbet said.


    Fabienne Buccio, prefect of the Pas-de-Calais region,told reporters last week that the camp would be dismantled peacefully, without the use of force, in cooperation with charity associations which would encourage migrants to move voluntarily to the better-equipped facilities.


    Read: Welcome to the Jungle


    The work was delayed until a legal appeal against the plan by migrant charities was rejected by a French court on Thursday.


    Police forces stand at the ready during the dismantling of half of the "Jungle" migrant camp in the French northern port city of Calais.

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    By Matthew Holehouse, in Brussels, video source Reuters/APTN 12:11PM GMT 29 Feb 2016

    Migrant crowd uses battering ram to break open Macedonia fences

    Macedonian police use teargas in clashes on Greek border, amid fears bottlenecks could result in humanitarian crisis

    Hundreds of migrants attempted to break through a border fence from Greece into Macedonia with an improvised battering-ram made from a road sign.

    Macedonian police fired tear gas rounds after a group of around 300 Iraqi and Syrian migrants forced through a Greek police cordon and ran along a railway track, before breaking open gates laced with barber wire.

    "Open the borders!" they shouted, prompting police to fire volleys of tear gas which prevented them from crossing.

    The angry protest took place several hours after Macedonia allowed some 300 Syrians and Iraqis to cross before resealing the frontier, keeping thousands of others out.

    Greece faces a bottleneck of tens of thousands of migrants after the Balkan states, led by Austria, imposed caps on migrant crossings and denied entry to Afghans.

    As the bottleneck showed little sign of easing, German Chancellor Angel Merkel lashed out at a raft of restrictions imposed by Austria and the Balkan states, saying they risked plunging debt-ridden Greece into refugee chaos.

    "We can't just abandon this country," she said in an interview late on Sunday, pointing the finger at Austria, whose introduction of restrictions on February 19 triggered a domino effect.

    "When one insists on his border, the other suffers. That's not my Europe."

    On the ground, thousands continued to mass at the Idomeni crossing in the hope it would be opened after a day of protests in which scores of people lay down on the railway tracks, among them women and children, some holding slogans reading "Open borders" and "We are humans, not animals".

    The build-up at Idomeni camp, which can accommodate up to 1,500 people but is currently sheltering more than 6,000, began last week after Macedonia began refusing entry to Afghans and imposed stricter controls on Syrians and Iraqis.

    EU members Slovenia and Croatia quickly followed suit along with Serbia, with all four states imposing a daily limit of 580 migrants.

    The European Commission is in talks with Greece to dispense emergency aid amid fears the bottleneck could trigger a humanitarian crisis.

    Video: Migrant crowd uses battering ram to break open Macedonia fences - Telegraph






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    It looks like an INVASION to me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Newmexican View Post
    It looks like an INVASION to me!
    They are always saying over and over we're not animals but watch and be careful what's we are for them

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    Quote Originally Posted by European Knight View Post
    They are always saying over and over we're not animals but watch and be careful what's we are for them
    The Barbarians are literally at the gates.

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