Migrant invaders clash with Greek police during protest on Lesbos island
Migrant invaders clash with Greek police during protest on Lesbos island
By Arthur Lyons 7 February 2020
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Greek police on Monday clashed with 2,000 migrant invaders from the Moria asylum center who took to the streets of Lesbos to protest the government’s stricter migration policy.
The protest began at roughly 10:30 am when the mob of angry migrants left the Moria camp and began marching toward the city of Mytilene. Violence broke out after the migrant protesters attempted to break through a police cordon which sought to prevent the group from reaching the island’s capital city, Ekathimerini reports.
One cluster of migrants set fires in an area not far from the Public Power Corporation (PPC) power plant, while a separate group managed to reach Mytilene, where they occupied the city’s central thoroughfare which leads out to the harbor. The migrants, who claim they disobeyed police orders out of fear that they would be sent home under the government’s new migration policy, then erected tents in front of the Mytilene’s municipal theater.
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Last November, Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who leads the country’s center-right government that was elected in July, announced that his government would increasing border security and instituting tighter controls on migrant holding centers.
“We will permanently shut the door to illegal human traffickers, to those who want to enter although they are not entitled to asylum,” Mitsotakis said.
As of the end of last year, close to 32,000 migrants were living in camps on the eastern Aegean islands of Lesbos and Samos, despite the camps having first been constructed to accommodate only around 6,000 people.
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