It tightens even more the immigration issue in Macedonia. At least eight people were injured this morning during clashes between Macedonian police and migrants trying to cross the border from Greece: it was announced by the Greek police, according to reports from the news agency AP.
A young man was found bleeding probably due to the splinters of a stun grenade thrown by police directly into the crowd. The police, with the help of armored vehicles, draped with barbed wire the railway line used by immigrants to cross the border on foot and go into Macedonia.
About 3,000 migrants, many with babies and children, They spent spent the night in a field with no food and little water. “I do not know why we are doing this,” said Mohammad Wahid, an Iraqi. “I have no passport, no identity documents. I can not go back and do not know where to go. I will remain here until the end, “he added. Greece has suffered this year an influx of migrants unprecedented so far it has received more than 160 thousand, most of whom come from neighboring Turkey.
A rising crisis, the one between Greece and Macedonia, which It opens in the days when Britain and France make peace after months of give and take on the migrant issue. But from Skopje (Macedonia’s capital) you do not want to back down and, in fact, comes the decision to strengthen the security and prevent the entry into the country to hundreds of people intransito to Serbia and the EU. “This measure is put in place for the safety of citizens living in the border area and better treatment of migrants,” said police spokesman Ivo Macedonian Kotevksi.
The police intensify patrols of the 50-kilometer border between Greece and Macedonia, in an attempt to stop the “massive” influx of migrants in the former Yugoslav republic, where in July alone there have been over 39,000 people intransito, twice a month before. Migrants coming from Greece for days pile up in the town of Gevgelija Macedonian border, trying to get on crowded trains to Serbia, from which they hope to achieve then Hungary and then the European Union.
Scenes are not very different from those seen in Calais, where migrants try to hide on board rail shuttles and trucks traveling to Britain. In the French port, though, today was the day of handshakes and words of mutual friendship between Bernard Cazeneuve and Theresa May, the celebration of the cartel found between Paris and London on the complex history of the security of the Euro tunnel entrance French every day under pressure from the attempts of unauthorized entry. The two Ministers of the Interior, after a visit to the tunnel access and a meeting with the police, have signed a collaboration agreement on the supervision of Calais and the surrounding area and on combating the trafficking chains human.
For Calais, the agreement provides in particular for increased surveillance of the tunnel, with “new teams of searches 24 hours on 24 and 7 days on 7″ to identify those who try to cross illegally, as well as creation of a common center of command and control. In parallel, it will be intensified, “the observation of the migratory phenomenon”, to identify those most vulnerable and at risk of exploitation by traffickers, particularly women and children, and will increase the capacity of processing of asylum applications on the spot. Measures for which London is committed to invest ten million euro in two years, granting the request of financial support coming from the government so much of Paris as the management company of the Euro tunnel.
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