A policeman kicks out at a migrant during clashes outside a refugee camp in the village of Diavata. Photo: APHundreds of protesting migrants clashed with police for a third straight day in northern Greece on Saturday, with migrants throwing rocks at officers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. Authorities say the demonstrations outside a migrant camp in Diavata have been triggered by false reports on social media that restrictions on travel to northern Europe had been lifted. "We must constantly fight the fake news," Nikos Ragos, the migrant policy ministry's coordinator for northern Greece, told The Associated Press. Most of them are not camp residents, but came from all over Greece in order to reach the North Macedonia border.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 07, 2019 01:52 UTC