Greece clears more makeshift migrant camps

Greek police yesterday cleared two more improvised migrant camps near its border with Macedonia, moving occupants to state-run facilities, officials said, reports AFP.
Police in Greece’s second largest city Thessaloniki said the operation was ongoing in the makeshift camps, which had formed around a highway motel and a nearby petrol station.
Many of the migrants are from Morocco, Algeria and Pakistan, local police said.
According to government statistics there are around 1,900 migrants in the two camps near the border with Macedonia.
On Monday, over a thousand people were relocated from another makeshift camp set up around another filling station about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the frontier.
The three improvised camps had swelled after officials last month moved some 4,000 people away from the sprawling tent city of Idomeni, on the Macedonian border.
The camp closures are part of a strategy by Greece to prevent a buildup of migrants in squalid conditions after European Union countries began to shutter their borders to the human influx in February.

Greece clears more makeshift migrant camps

Greek police yesterday cleared two more improvised migrant camps near its border with Macedonia, moving occupants to state-run facilities, officials said, reports AFP. Police in Greeces second largest city Thessaloniki said the operation was ongoing in the makeshift camps, which had formed around a highway motel and a nearby petrol station. Many of the migrants are from Morocco, Algeria and Pakistan, local police said. According to government statistics there are around 1,900 migrants in the two camps near the border with Macedonia. On Monday, over a thousand people were relocated from another makeshift camp set up around another filling station about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the frontier. The three improvised camps had swelled after officials last month moved some 4,000 people away from the sprawling tent city of Idomeni, on the Macedonian border. The camp closures are part of a strategy by Greece to prevent a buildup of migrants in squalid conditions after European Union countries began to shutter their borders to the human influx in February.