Published : 05-08-2017
Some 150 migrants from Syria, among whom Palestinian refugees, rallied outside the German embassy in Athens, urging the German authorities to reunite them with their families in Germany.
The rally-goers marched from the Greek parliament to the embassy headquarters, lifting banners reading “I want to see my family” and “the right to family reunification is not crime”.
Greece and Germany have agreed to slow down the reunification of refugee families bided between the two nations during their scramble to safety, according to a leaked letter obtained by leftist daily Efimerida ton Syntakton sometime earlier.
Some 400 Palestinian refugees, mostly from the Syrian camps of Daraa, Yarmouk, AlAydeen, and AlHusseiniya, have been seeking shelter in makeshift tents and under-equipped halls on such Greek islands as Lesbos, Chios, Leros, and Kos.
Some 150 migrants from Syria, among whom Palestinian refugees, rallied outside the German embassy in Athens, urging the German authorities to reunite them with their families in Germany.
The rally-goers marched from the Greek parliament to the embassy headquarters, lifting banners reading “I want to see my family” and “the right to family reunification is not crime”.
Greece and Germany have agreed to slow down the reunification of refugee families bided between the two nations during their scramble to safety, according to a leaked letter obtained by leftist daily Efimerida ton Syntakton sometime earlier.
Some 400 Palestinian refugees, mostly from the Syrian camps of Daraa, Yarmouk, AlAydeen, and AlHusseiniya, have been seeking shelter in makeshift tents and under-equipped halls on such Greek islands as Lesbos, Chios, Leros, and Kos.
