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Demonstrators protest against the construction of new migrant camps in Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos, on February 27, 2020.
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‘It’s a powder keg ready to explode’: In Greek village, tensions simmer between refugees and locals
KEY POINTS
- Turkey said on Thursday it would no longer restrain hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in its territory from reaching Europe despite a deal to do so reached with the EU in 2016.
- Thousands of refugees are now on the border of Greece.
- The Greek island of Lesvos is a holding station for refugees from the Middle East and Africa seeking asylum in the European Union.
- Protests are erupting in the refugee camp and across the island of Lesvos as living conditions deteriorate and crime escalates.
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