Over 250 migrants took to the streets to block a busy northern Greek highway, in a second day of protests against overcrowding and poor conditions in the nearby camp they are housed in.
The protesters were mainly Kurdish migrants from the camp in Diavata, on Thessaloniki’s western outskirts, with the protest lasting for over an hour and causing major traffic jams.
According to reports, the Diavata camp is designed to house 750 people, but its population has grown to 1,850 amid increased immigration flows from Turkey. New arrivals sleep in tents or on the ground.
Greek officials are reopening camps built after the immigration crisis of 2015, in which more than a million people arrived on their way to other parts of Europe.
Most of these camps were later closed and their occupants moved to flats in Greek cities or relocated to other European countries.