Police Officers: Police and Refugee Camps

police officers: Police said about 350 people, mainly families, would go to a camp in Thebes, about 70 kilometres 45 miles northwest of Athens, while the remainder of mainly single people would go to Derveni, about 140 kilometres 85 miles west of the capital, according to Metro News. No violence was reported during the evacuation, which was assisted by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration. Access to the Hellenikon airport site was blocked off in the morning, and dozens of police officers and riot police stood by as the roughly 600 migrants collected their belongings and boarded buses to refugee camps elsewhere in Greece. The facilities at the old airport are a holdover from the initial stage of the crisis, when thousands of people were reaching our islands, Yiannis Balafas, deputy minister for migration, said on state-run ERT television. Migrants and Greek activists have held several demonstrations at Hellenikon to protest living conditions there over the past few months. So this was something that remained from that time, and now they will go to more suitable facilities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.