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According to media reports from Thrace, tensions prevailed throughout the Evros border region overnight. The police, reinforced by new forces, responded by throwing tear gas to try to intercept them.

The immigrants, who are accommodated in the Reception and Identification Center of the island, assaulted the local hospitals and "looted" from wheelchairs, washing machines and refrigerators to cardiographers, ultrasound scanners and surgical scissors! This is not the first time immigrants have reported incidents of violence, but this is truly unprecedented.

Seventeen humanitarian organizations on Tuesday sent a joint letter to Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis, expressing their concern about the thousands of asylum seekers and their children living in Greece and who do not have access to the public health system.