Riot police deploy to Greek islands set to build new migrant camps


Afghan migrants in a camp on Greek island of Lesbos in 2017. – EPA pic, February 25, 2020.

RIOT police were dispatched to the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios yesterday as the government prepared to launch the construction of new controversial migrant camps.

On both islands, police deployed at the harbour to facilitate the landing of security force reinforcements from the mainland, state agency ANA said.


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