Over 500 illegal migrant invaders have made it to the shores of Greece’s Eastern Aegean islands Lesbos, Samos, and Chios on Sunday after the Turkish regime ordered its border guards and coast guard to stand down, according to police sources.
One police official told Reuters that no less than seven dinghies carrying over 300 migrants managed to reach the island of Lesbos, while an additional 150 managed to slip through Greek coast guard and naval patrols in the region to make it to the island of Samos.
Videos have surfaced on social media of ordinary Greek citizens living on the islands attempting to prevent the migrant from disembarking from their vessels and confronting NGO invader-collaborators.
#Update: Meanwhile on the island of #Lesvos in #Greece, people from #NGO‘s are being harassed and chased away by Greek patriots after a boat of illegal migrants came to the shores of the island. Locals saying it is time for them to leave the country. pic.twitter.com/VLi3xxmjzw
— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@Sotiridimp) March 1, 2020
Local Greek residents on the islands of the #Lesbos and #Chios are absolutely FURIOUS with the new massive wave of migrants arriving to Greece.
Today, a crowd gathered to stop migrants from disembarking.
One migrant who tried to swim ashore was beaten up by a number of men pic.twitter.com/iNBWBiGBb2
— BasedPoland (@BasedPoland) March 1, 2020
Last week, Voice of Europe reported that the Turkish regime – following the military escalation between the Russian-backed Syrian army and the Erdogan regime – had announced that it would open its border with Syria and permit any and all migrants from the Middle East to pass through Turkey to reach Europe.
The senior Turkish official said that Erdogan’s government has decided to no longer allocate resources to stopping Syrian migrants from reaching Europe by land or sea.
The following day, in response to Turkish aggression, the Greek government sealed off its border and deployed fifty navy warships to protect the Greek islands and ten helicopters to guard land borders against foreign invaders sent by the Erdogan regime.
Over the weekend, videos circulated on social media which depicted fighting-aged male migrants clashing with Greek border guards and security forces at various Greek-Turkish land borders. Greek security forces were forced to deploy tear gas to disperse the large crowds of violent, fighting-aged, male invaders.
“Those poor islamic extremists immigrants, why doesn’t evil Greece let them enter?”#IStandWithGreece #Greece_under_attack pic.twitter.com/PSQCMpKE5q
— Dr.Surjeet Singh M.S. (@DrSurjeetSing17) March 2, 2020
Doctors, artists, engineers, professors, physicians, software developers, lawyers, surgeons, dentists, pharmacists and scientists angry at Greece ?? for not letting them help Europe develop into Paradise. pic.twitter.com/mBsoou2Ldx
— Imam of Peace (@Imamofpeace) March 2, 2020
On Sunday morning, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu wrote that 76,358 migrants were headed toward Greece. Soylu claimed that thousands of migrants – the vast majority of whom are fighting-aged males – passed through the border city of Edirne on Sunday morning and were headed for the Turkish-Greek border.
A Turkish man screaming and forcing refugees to push collectively and breach Greek border.
This is a deliberate and organized campaign by Erdogan government.
This is an invasion#Istandwithgreece#GreeceUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/4FEwlMsZhJ— The Duke (@john_wayne_gr) March 1, 2020
Situation on the Turkish side of the Turkish-Greek border tonight.
Immigrants who have been played by Erdogan are sleeping in the fields, lighting fires to keep them warm.#IStandWithGreece #Greece_under_attack pic.twitter.com/cBCQFQIibt— The Duke (@john_wayne_gr) March 2, 2020
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