Greek loudspeakers to dispel rumors
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GREECE said yesterday it would make use of loudspeakers at a migrants’ camp on the Macedonia frontier to dispel “irresponsible rumors” that the border is about to reopen.
“We are trying to step up efforts to address refugees and migrants in their own language and without an intermediary,” said Giorgos Kyritsis, spokesman for the government’s coordination panel on the migration.
Additional interpreters would be sent to the camp and a loudspeaker system — currently operated by the UN refugee agency — would be employed to make official announcements, he said.
On Sunday, several hundred migrants, including people in wheelchairs or carrying babies, dashed for the border following rumors it would be opened. The commotion appeared to be triggered by a rumor that journalists and Red Cross officials would help migrants force their way across the fence, a young Syrian refugee told the Athens News Agency.
Kyritsis condemned “irresponsible rumors and disinformation” that “spread like wildfire ... among people who are under pressure and living in very difficult conditions.”
More than 50,000 migrants, many of them Syrians, are stranded in Greece after other European countries sealed off the so-called Balkan trail.
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