THESSALONIKI, Greece
THESSALONIKI, Greece – The Latest on the flow of migrants in Europe (all times local):
5:30 p.m.
Austria’s leader is demanding that his junior coalition partner distances itself from a poem that compared migrants with rats.
Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told the Austria Press Agency that the Freedom Party’s branch in Upper Austria province should “immediately and unambiguously” distance itself from the poem that appeared in a party publication in Braunau.
Kurz said “the choice of words is abhorrent, inhuman and deeply racist, and has no place in Upper Austria or the whole country.”
The poem, which was titled “The Town Rat” and warned against mixing cultures, also drew strong criticism from the center-left opposition.
Kurz struck a coalition deal with the Freedom Party and became chancellor in late 2017.
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3:20 p.m.
Greek authorities say dozens of asylum-seekers have turned up at the home address of European border agency employees helping police the border with Turkey.
Police say 61 men, women and children who had just crossed illegally from Turkey headed straight for the rented flats of German and Dutch employees of the Frontex agency in the town of Orestiada before dawn Monday, and started ringing doorbells.
The migrants said they were from Syria and Iraq and wanted to register for asylum. Greek police were called to handle the process.
Police said it was unclear how the migrants found the Frontex employees’ home address, and why they didn’t go directly to a police station. Syrian and Iraqi refugees have little trouble securing asylum in Greece.
Source: Fox News World
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Greek authorities say dozens of asylum-seekers have turned up at the home address of European border agency employees helping police the border with Turkey.
Police say 61 men, women and children who had just crossed illegally from Turkey headed straight for the rented flats of German and Dutch employees of the Frontex agency in the town of Orestiada before dawn Monday, and started ringing doorbells.
The migrants said they were from Syria and Iraq and wanted to register for asylum. Greek police were called to handle the process.
Police said it was unclear how the migrants found the Frontex employees’ home address, and why they didn’t go directly to a police station. Syrian and Iraqi refugees have little trouble securing asylum in Greece.
Source: Fox News World
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Greek police say they have stopped a truck with stolen license plates and found 59 undocumented migrants inside.
The truck was stopped Friday afternoon on the highway about 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of Thessaloniki, because it had Bulgarian license plates that had been reported stolen. Behind a few boxes of insulation materials lay the 59 migrants, about half from Somalia and the rest from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Palestine and Sudan, police announced Saturday.
The migrants told police they had paid 1,500 euros ($1,690) each to a trafficker in Turkey who helped them cross into Greece by boat, before boarding the truck.
The 61-year-old Bulgarian driver was arrested.
Source: Fox News World
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Greek authorities say they have rescued 21 migrants found adrift in a small boat in a section of the northeastern Aegean Sea off the usual illegal immigration route.
The migrants were located Thursday between the island of Samothraki and the northeastern port of Alexandroupoli, after Greek authorities received an emergency call reporting their boat was in trouble.
Most migrants entering Greece illegally by sea from Turkey prefer the much shorter crossing to the eastern Aegean Sea islands, and the longer, northern route is rarely used.
Also Thursday, police in the northeastern region of Thrace said they detained nine Syrian and Afghan migrants found squashed into a car that was being driven west after crossing the land border from Turkey.
The driver, a 20-year-old Syrian, was arrested on suspicion of people-smuggling.
Source: Fox News World
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