“The Government underlines that actions like these by FYROM police forces against refugees and migrants, among whom there are small children, are very dangerous” Olga Gerovasili said. “The problem at Idomeni and Piraeus will be dealt with more efficiently once the relocations of refugees from Greek camps to European member states start” she added.
The first results from the examination process of asylum requests will be announced in approximately 15 days, when the next step in the implementation of the agreement regarding the refugee crisis will also begin.
After the violent events at Idomeni on Sunday, when FYROM police teargassed the makeshift camp and used rubber bullets, the diplomatic row between the two countries has deepened. Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said yesterday that “such unimaginable and unacceptable behaviors have no place neither in the EU nor NATO” referring to FYROM.
Currently, approximately 11.200 people still reside at the makeshift camp and more than 300 were treated by the Doctors Without Borders after FYROM’s police forces actions. Most of them, had breathing difficulties but some 30 were treated for rubber bullet injuries and another 30 for open wounds.