MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On Saturday, riot police were forced to intervene as Moroccan nationals tried to sell protection to other migrants threatening to beat them if they did not agree.
"I was told that a group of Moroccans were blackmailing people to give them money, or be forced to leave," Greek Alternate Minister on Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas was quoted as saying by the Greek MEGA TV.
Earlier in the week, over 2,000 predominantly African migrants were brought to Athens from the Greek border with Macedonia to the north, and settled in a former Olympic taekwondo hall in the southern Athens suburb.
The situation at the stadium is tense since Moroccans, Algerians, Yemenis, Eritreans and many others live together at a sporting facility, but fail to coexist peacefully.
