Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia have stopped allowing access to their territories to migrants from countries other than Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq amid security concerns triggered by the Paris attacks earlier this month. The move led to some 1,000 people from countries like Iran, Pakistan and Morocco being stranded on the Greek border with Macedonia, according to the journal.
Europe is struggling to manage the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety and shelter.
Macedonia reinforces a fence alongside its southern border of Greece to prevent migrants from crossing by #Idomeni pic.twitter.com/QOvt9iZ2Rf
— pecora nera (@Agapi_V) 28 ноября 2015
Macedonia started building a razor-wire fence on its border with Greece today. #refugeecrisis pic.twitter.com/eeeX1VLqdn
— Oscar Webb (@owebb) 28 ноября 2015
Fears have reemerged of extremists reaching Europe by posing as refugees after a Syrian passport has been recovered near the body of one of the November 13 suicide bombers in Paris. Greek and Serbian officials both said they had registered the passport holder as an asylum seeker at their respective reception centers last month.
