Thousands of migrants caught between Europe and Turkey (Replay)

Migrants queue to receive food aid at the Turkish border crossing point Pazarkule with Kastanies Greece, near Edirne in Turkey, March 5, 2020. REUTERS / Murad Sezer

By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

The border between Turkey and Greece still in turmoil. For 6 days and the announcement of Ankara to open its doors to Europe, there are thousands: men, women and children stranded a few kilometers from Greece and Europe.

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The situation remains tense with Greek police officers who prevent all passage and fire tear gas, and increasingly irritated migrants to wait in very harsh conditions. Report at the border post of Edirne, one of the two road crossings from Turkey to Greece from Cerise Sudry-Le Dû.

Shock and indignation, this unprecedented influx of migrants and refugees stranded on the Greek border made the headlines of the European press. Ingrid Therwath returns to it in the Courrier International column.

Is there traffic in waste in Bulgaria? Bulgarian authorities have recently seized thousands of tonnes of stored waste across the country. Garbage that would be used as non-approved fuel in the boilers of thermal power plants. A case which also involves fallen oligarchs. Damian Vodenitcharov's report .

In the Netherlands, an extraordinary trial for a drug baron opens today (March 6, 2020). In the defendants' box in Amsterdam, Ridouan Taghi accused of directing a large cocaine trafficking network, and especially of having ordered the assassination of nine people. To the point that the Dutch press presents Taghi as the Toto Riina of the Netherlands, with reference to the historical godfather of the Italian Mafia, in the 1980s and 1990s. In The Hague, the explanations of Antoine Mouteau.

Vincent Théval's musical chronicle tells us about the Franco-British orchestra the Fantasy Orchestra.

(March 6, 2020 replay)

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