Crisis with refugees in Macedonia


Monday, August 24th 2015

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The situation in the border area of Gevgelia has normalized following the crisis with refugees.

In this area bordering Greece, tents have started to be set up in order to open a temporary center for the admission of refugees.
Meanwhile, all the refugees that come to Macedonia are allowed to continue their journey, but they first rest in the accommodation center.
Meanwhile, those refugees who had set off from Gevgelia in the afternoon arrive in the railway station of Tabanoc near the border with Serbia.
“Two trains which were full of refugees, arrived today in the train station of Tabanoc. They stopped a little to rest and then they departed for Serbia”, declared for IBNA, Isuf Pajaziti, head of the Railway Station in Tabanoc.
Refugees have talked about the terrible moments that they had had gone through in the past two days, when Macedonian police had kept them outside, under the rain and in low temperatures, selecting small groups to enter the country.
“People in Macedonia are good, but police is bad. Everyone is sick. Police relaxed, while we sought help. They told us that we lied and they hit us”, a refugee from Syria said.
In the past 24 hours, police have registered over 2000 refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, but there are many others who haven’t been registered. Meanwhile, in the past three days, around 8 thousand refugees have entered the country. This number was tripled following the government’s decision to control and secure the border in the south of the country.

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