“Every year, Greece hosts 25 million tourists,” a frustrated aid worker told me, “and to date we have been given 800 million euros in funding for this crisis —
but we can’t find proper accommodation for 50,000 people?”
The crisis is, instead, the result of deliberate political choices.
Inside the perimeter, crumbling concrete buildings
and open fields, long abandoned by the Greek military, are now home to 700 refugees — some of the 50,000 or so trapped in limbo in this debt-ridden country since Europe slammed its borders closed a year ago.
We didn’t have enough money to all get to Germany, so my husband went ahead.”
Last year, Ms. Hamry and her children, Arin, 2, and Mohammad, 6, tried to follow.
I told the people, ‘I want to make Ritsona great again!’ and the people agreed.”
The first person we stop to talk to is a girl gathering rapeseed flowers for her 2-year-old brother.
At Skaramagas camp, in Athens’s port area, there are toilets inside the trailers, instead of
out in the freezing cold; it’s one of the best-appointed camps in the country, I’m told.
The Refugee King of Greece -
By ASHLEY GILBERTSON APRIL 14, 2017
“No risk, no life,” a teenage migrant told me, before jumping on a freight train.
