Police Are Evicting Refugees From Europe’s Largest Makeshift Camp
Officers will remove about 8,000 refugees from the camp at Idomeni on the Greece–Macedonia border over the next 10 days, sending them to other processing facilities.
About 8,000 refugees are being removed by police from an informal refugee camp on Greece's border with Macedonia.
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Many of the refugees have been camped in the makeshift tent city for months.
In March, when Macedonia closed its borders, more than 15,000 refugees were estimated to be living in the camp. Many of them have since been moved to other official sites across Greece.
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