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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 06:40 AM Apr 2016

Somebody is feeding the refugees at the macedonian border wrong intel to provoke clashes.

About a month ago, a leaflet passed through the refugee-camp Idomeni. It was written in arabic and the refugees were called on to break the fence en masse. "If there are enough of us, they can't stop us all."

Who created that leaflet?
Who distributed it?
Who talked refugees into risking their lifes?

The people who organized this called themselves "Kommando Norbert Blüm" (in reference to a german ex-politician who had visited the camp shortly before).
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/balkan-route-stecken-fluechtlingshelfer-hinter-dem-kommando-norbert-bluem-1.2908305
(article in german)


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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/refugees-tear-gassed-at-macedonia-greece-border/

The clashes began soon after some 500 refugees gathered close to the fence.

Activists had distributed fliers, in Arabic, calling for the refugees to gather at the fence on Sunday morning. A delegation of five refugees asked Macedonian police whether the border was about to open.

When Macedonian police denied this, over a hundred refugees, including several children, tried to scale the fence.



So, again.
Somebody manipulates the refugees into believing that the border will open.
The border is in fact not open.
The refugees freak out in their desperation and the situation gets out of control.










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"Those poor people! Somebody has to help them!"
"I have an idea! We should cook up some dangerous schemes to get these desperate people to break the border violently. A few refugees might get killed or hurt, but this will only make the border-police look even more unsympathetic."

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Somebody is feeding the refugees at the macedonian border wrong intel to provoke clashes. (Original Post) DetlefK Apr 2016 OP
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