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Self-proclaimed “anarchist refugee” from Iran, Abtin Parsa, who has been granted political asylum by Greece, published a call in a well-known anarchist website calling on the anarchist movement to arm illegal immigrants in Evros, stating that “the answer of bullet should be bullet back and this is the only way to open the border for all the immigrants”.

A statement by former Minister of SYRIZA, Panagiotis Kouroublis equating Greeks fleeing Minor Asia during the war between Turkey and Greece to the illegal immigrants entering Greece today has caused a backlash online.

The Greek coast guard rescued a total of 136 illegal migrants and refugees in on day in six different incidents in Alexandroupolis, Samothrace, Chios and Samos.