Scenes from the Evzoni-Gevgelija border crossing, Greece/Macedonia.
For those who survive the Mediterranean crossing.
The ‘Balkan Route’ awaits.
Eamonn Farrell, photo/news agency boss, writes:
Sasko Lazarov, a freelance photojournalist who works with RollingNews.ie and Photocall Ireland whose work may be familiar to Broadsheet readers… returned to his home in Macedonia recently on holiday. While there he came across these scenes.. Unfortunately due to his becoming ill while at home and the need to verify some details, we are only in a position to release them now.
The plight facing the thousand of immigrants who were lucky enough to survive the Mediterranean and who having got through processing in Greece, then take the Balkan Route overland through Macedonia and Serbia to try and get into Hungary, which is now building a wall across its border with Serbia. The scenes along the route are heartbreaking and harrowing.
And while not having the visual drama of sea drownings or rescue, they portray a tragic canvas of biblical proportions, with the young, elderly and sick, being hounded like animals, abused and sometimes relieved of their few remaining possessions, herded onto trains to ‘anywhere but my back yard’.
(Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie)
To be honest, it still looks better than having to use a train in Britain
+07.34 to Paddington
That’s cheered me right up.
This is out of control, the numbers of people flooding into Europe are staggering!
And still our Government does nothing about it.
They’ve done loads. They’ve kept the economy deflated in order to discourage anyone wanting to come here and allowed Enda to talk out load to make them think were all idiots.
Were all idiots. But that’s a bit harsh.
I think we are informing ourselves and unlike our parents generation we can travel with ease and bring back the news that everybody is different but the same.
Sorry to sound dumb, but where are the majority of these immigrants from?
You’re not allowed to ask that question.
syria, libya, iraq and afghanistan mostly
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/11/greece-humanitarian-crisis-islands
Thanks Scottser.
Very sad images :(
Looks like Howth station on a sunny afternoon.
Everyone clamouring for Beshoffs
Heuston Station after an All-Ireland Final.
what a witty brigade.
Yeah, they’re gas…
As a small island we need to be more strict like Australia at our borders and stop letting everyone in.
there’d be more room if you’d go back to what ever hole you came out of
Vermin
Maybe if you’d just clear away some of the detritus of shut-in living you mightn’t have that problem. Until you can manage that, maybe lay a few traps…and have a shower for heaven’s sake, my friend.