REPORTAGE
The situation is far from subsiding on the border between Turkey and Greece. Since Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened its border in a context of growing tensions in Syria, some 20,000 migrants have been trying to reach Europe, caught in the crossfire of a communications war between Ankara and Athens. To better understand the situation, Europe 1 went to Kastanies, a small Greek city of 1,000 inhabitants glued to Turkey.
Refugee gunshot charges
This Wednesday, as every day since the beginning of the week, it is the same refrain: the Turkish authorities accuse the Greek police officers of having opened fire with real bullets on the refugees who try to enter Europe, doing by the even an indefinite number of dead. On the other hand, Greece denies and accuses Ankara of fabricating false information, while videos of gunshots circulate on social networks.
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An instrumentalization of the press
In this imbroglio of the two sides of the barbed wire which delimit the countries, the only certainty is that a war of images is in progress. And in this conflict, Greece does not hesitate to instrumentalize the press according to our reporter on the spot. With a hundred other journalists, he was invited this Wednesday morning to get closer to the barbed wire to see how "the police and the military defend the border against the migrants left by the Turks."
A supervised outing therefore, with a prohibition on getting too close or talking to asylum seekers, before turning around on the first round of tear gas. And impossible to return there later in the day: a military patrol blocking the road.