Serbia: winter evictions

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Balkans, evictions, exilés, migrants, Serbia

The cold weather this January has not only touched Greece (see here, here and there). In this context in Serbia, the government destroyed the encampments in the vicinity of Subotica, near the border with Hungary.

 

 

The railway hangars sqatted as shelters in Belgrade were also evacuated. Médecins Sans Frontières is trying to cope with the situation when the authorities are trying to hinder humanitarian aid.

http://www.msf.org/en/article/migration-thousands-trapped-freezing-temperatures-greece-and-balkans

http://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/le-fil-de-l-info/les-dernieres-infos-o-refugiesbalkans-les-anciens-hangars-ferroviaires-a-belgrade-bientot-evacues.html

http://www.msf.fr/presse/revue-de-presse/paris-match-en-serbie-migrants-enfer-hiver

 

Greece: information about the eviction of Idomeni camp

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Balkans, evictions, exilés, Greece

The expulsion of eight thousand five hundred exiles from the camp of Idomeni, on the border with Macedonia, began yesterday morning. The Greek government has guaranteed that there would be no violence. Eight riot police companies have been mobilized. On the night before the start of the evacuation, volunteers, activists, journalists, photographers, were sought tent by tent, vehicle by vehicle, to be removed from the site, and there is thus no witnesses.

But witnesses there are, of course, the exiles themselves. You can follow online the situation based on the information that they send:

http://moving-europe.org/24-5-2016-updates-from-the-eviction-in-idomeni/

https://www.facebook.com/movingeuropeproject/

https://twitter.com/movingeurope