DIAVATA, Greece: Greek police fired teargas on Saturday as angry migrants hoping to travel to northern Europe hurled stones and bottles after being barred from reaching a nearby border crossing, witnesses said.
"We don't want to fight with the Greek police," said 36-year old Yaser, a Syrian refugee, sitting on a blanket with his baby son in his arms."We want to go to Europe, we don't want to stay in Greece," he told Reuters through an interpreter. Migration Ministry coordinator for northern Greece Nikos Ragkos said two buses for migrants had already left Diavata.
Jana Frey, country director for the International Rescue Committee Greece, said the unrest highlighted"the amount of false information being presented to asylum seekers and refugees."