Riots Break Out Along Greece’s Border With Macedonia

Source: New York Times

Riots erupted on the Greek border with Macedonia on Monday, as angry refugees broke down a razor-wire fence separating the two countries with a battering ram after the Macedonian authorities sealed the frontier to prevent them from passing.

The conflict surged as the Greek government warned that as many as 50,000 people could be trapped in the country within a month, and as aid groups cautioned that a humanitarian crisis was growing.

On Sunday, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said that Greece could not be allowed to succumb to the migration crisis.

“Do you seriously believe that all the euro states that last year fought all the way to keep Greece in the eurozone, and we were the strictest, can one year later allow Greece to, in a way, plunge into chaos?” she told the public broadcaster ARD.

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