Greece deployed riot police and border guards to repel people trying to enter the country from the sea or by land.
Migrants carry an injured man during clashes at the Pazarkule border gate, Turkey, at the Turkish-Greek border on Friday, March 6, 2020. Clashes erupted anew on the Greek-Turkish border Friday as migrants attempted to push through into Greece, while the European Union's foreign ministers held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation on the border and in Syria, where Turkish troops are fighting.
It was not immediately clear what caused the two migrants' injuries. A Greek government official said the tear gas and water cannons were used for “deterrence" purposes. In a statement Saturday, the Greek government said that around 600 people, aided by Turkish army and military police, threw tear gas at the Greek side of the border overnight. It also said there were several attempts to breach the border fence, and fires were lit in an attempt to damage the barrier.
Another man who identified himself as being from Idlib said he was camped out in western Turkey both to get away from the war at home and to make a new life for his family in Europe or Canada after crossing through the border gate., would no longer be Europe's gatekeeper and declared that its previously guarded borders with Europe are now open.
In Berlin on Saturday, about 1,000 people rallied in front of the Interior Ministry urging Germany to take in asylum seekers stuck at the Greek border. They then marched through the streets downtown behind a banner reading “Europe, don’t kill. Open the borders, we have space.” “I didn’t go to the river," said Mohammed, the refugee from Idlib. “When the Greece police capture you, they tell you to take off all your clothes and have only the underwear, and then they order you to go to the other side.”
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