The Battle For Attica Square - Greece

October 2010

It's the first time that an EU country has seen its treatment of refugees described as a humanitarian crisis by the UNHCR. This report gets to the heart of the escalating tensions in Greece.

"I've seen too many. They cross the river like bees", sighs a local fisherman. With as many as 400 people crossing the Evros river each day, arrests of illegal immigrants in Greece have exploded from 3,500 to 20,000 in a year. Most choose to turn themselves in, but they have no idea what awaits them. Infested with rats, Greece's detention centres are now critically overcrowded. Those who try to avoid this fate end up on the streets, such as in Attica Square, home to hundreds of Afghan refugees. With no government support, crime is rife here, and as frustration builds, racial attacks by local vigilantes are escalating beyond control. Ghulam's family sleep on a bench in the square - his four-year-old son was recently attacked in the middle of the night. "If I'd stayed in Afghanistan I might have been beaten, but they would have at least spared my children. I cannot believe this is Europe."

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[chuckrulesass]

ye immigrants the best people. native people full of shit... are you kidding me? fucking propaganda...

yes they are people, yes they have rights, but no right to intrude other countries with no proper papers. WE GREEKS are getting foreigners in OUR country.. shouldnt that stop? fcking Turkey smuggles them into Hellas and we are so stupid that we accept them and we dont return them back, which is NOT against the law...

[sergeantbatman]

I have never seen such utter bollocks in my life, it still baffles me as to how so much bias could be contained within 20 minutes, I wish luck to my Greek friends from these parasites with entitlement complexes. If Greece and Europe are such animalistic societies as so falsely portrayed in this 'documentary', then why don't they return to their home countries?

[murattk22]

@grognougnou I don't want to start a cock waving fight between Greeks & Turks over YT but Turkey does not have to do anything since we are not in the EU, we are not legally bound to do anything & it is as simple as that. It is Germany as the wealthiest member state of the EU who should be paying for illegal immigration control. FYI & for all Greeks we also have our own problems regarding illegals entering our country.

[grognougnou]

@TurkeylovesGermany

The population of Turkey is 90% muslims while the majortiy of the migrants are muslims too and your economic situation isn't too bad for the moment, so please keep them. As for Greece it's an orthodox country who suffered more than 400 years of islamic colonization and the economic situation is bad. People don't want the colonizers (muslims, germans) back. Also in France where I live, muslims, black and arabs are majority criminals and racists toward the others communities.

[Oblivion1821]

@MalteseCorto26 episeis den tha stamatisw mexri na to vouloseis...ante kales paxies na xevoulosoun ta skata pou exeis mesa sto kefali sou..fele

[Oblivion1821]

@MalteseCorto26 apo pote o spote re gliodes ivridio antigrafw ton pleuri pou posos me enfiaferei..to ti pisteuei gia tous evraious kai tous fasisto-nazokoumounistograikil­ous san kai esas ..esu re malaka tote giati me antigrafis???ego den soupa na pas na autoktonisis tourkomongolosperma?:D an exw ego karkino ston egefalo toulaxiston kati exw ligo xrono zwhs esu pou anti gia egefalo exeis skata..den zeis eisai se afasia ena periplanomeno zompi pou trollarei sto diadiktio

[Oblivion1821]

@MalteseCorto26 to mono fasististo-nazi-ratsistis glioodes ivridio eisai esu kai oi omoideates sou gamw to soi sou tourkopoustomongolosperma sou sinisto na diavaseis oi sunepies tou aunanismou meta apo malakinsi ston egkefalo mporei kai na se sosei...'anti Greeks racsist " its fucking joke nowadays...ante trava twra kamia paxia fele...kariko sto kwlo sou euxomai kataramene graikile...xaxa bb ;)

[nadavg10]

"why should we built walls? This is not Israel/Palestine". Well my Greek friend, filis mou, this is worse! So maybe your country and the entire European Union should reconsider its political correctness and these malakas back to their countries. Greeting from Israel

[chuckrulesass]

@TurkeylovesGermany /watch?v=b6pQZx1jMKA

just 1 proof.if u want more, i bet you will find some articles in newspapers.dont search in Turkish ones, cause not even one could have written about it.or search for documentaries ;) and yes it's true, many of the immigrants use Hellas as a bridge to step into other european countries.i wish it was a lie.:/

/watch?v=eIGBVDgTfNI why should we do that?

i am sending you non Greek videos so as not to think i am using greek propaganda.