Migrants forcibly cross Greek-Fyrom borders

Around 30 journalists following the refugees were also arrested, among them 7 or 8 Greek photο journalists. They have been released.

The government has made an appeal to refugees to trust the Greek government and to move to shelters. EU Migration Commissioner Demetris Avramopoulos and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Idomeni today.

Hundreds of desperate refugees on Monday marched out of the Idomeni camp, seeking an alternative route across the sealed border of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
The mainly Syrian and Iraqi refugees, including children, trudged through mud carrying their belongings towards a river about 5 kilometers to the west of Idomeni, where some 12,000 refugees are stranded.
The migrants were seen walking in a long snaking line along a hilly road. The group included a number of children.
When they reached the river, they passed a rope across it and formed a “human chain” to help each other to get to the other side.
The migrants said they were trying to find a gap in the barbed-wire fence on the border.

The refugees forded a swollen river that crosses into FYROM, putting them closer to the sealed border as they searched for holes in a newly built barbed wire fence.
Highlighting the dangers, FYROM state TV MRT on Monday reported three Afghans were found dead in the river, apparently having drowned the previous day as part of a group of more than 20 refugees trying to cross the swollen Suva Reka river.
Hours after setting out from the camp, several hundred refugees were able cross into FYROM, where they were detained by border police and the army for illegally entering the country. Around 30 journalists following the refugees were also arrested.
Fyrom’s interior ministry said it was “taking steps” to return more than 700 illegal migrants back to Greece and would improve security where migrants crossed.