Vigilantes in Greece Say ‘No More’ to Migrants

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Vigilantes in Greece Say ‘No More’ to Migrants

Author:  Matina Stevis-Gridneff | nytimes.com | 7 March 2020 

EVROS, Greece — The farmers and pensioners wore black clothes and heavy boots, imitating Greece’s special forces, and trod along a rural road on a night patrol looking for migrants trying to cross the northern land border with Turkey. “We’ll get you next time!” they shouted at a small group of men who had made it over and fled.

Two hundred miles to the south, on the border island of Lesbos, locals angrily blocked a dinghy full of migrants from Turkey, including a pregnant woman and children, from getting off on a pier.

“No more!” they yelled, cursing.

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