About 4,000 people are stranded at the Piraeus Port as police are not allowing them to board buses for the Greece-FYROM border.
The refugees have arrived at the port waiting to be transported to Idomeni, at the border between Greece and the Former Yuogoslav Republic of Macedonia.
However, congestion prevails at Greece-Fyrom’s buffer zone at Idomeni following FYROM’s decision not to allow the entrance to Afghan nationals and the imposition of stricter conditions to the entrance of Syrians and Iraqis that have the relevant documents to access the country.
According to police’s latest figures, over 2,000 refugees are currently waiting at Idomeni camp while 62 buses with roughly 3,000 persons are parked at the nearby gas station which is 20 km away from the Greek-Fyrom border awaiting police’s signal to continue their trip.
A large number of Syrian or Iraqi refugees, who are allowed to cross only by presenting their documents, have lost their passports or identity cards in their long journey to reach the Greek coasts and according to the new rules they are not allowed to cross the borders.
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