tue 29 dec 2015, 20:34

Thousands still choose balkan route

Photo: AP

LJUBLJANA –

Also at the end of the year the daily still thousands of refugees through the balkan routes, to Austria and Germany. Only on Tuesday until the afternoon in Slovenia 2000 new migrants counted, said secretary of the Interior Bostjan Sefic, Ljubljana.

The day before, there were 4200 and during the kerstweekend were almost 11,000 people registered. Since Hungary from mid-October the border with a fence has closed and the Balkans-vluchtelingenroute about Slovenia, almost 372.000 people in the direction of Western Europe travelled.

From Turkey to Greece remains the influxes of refugees continue. Tuesday morning came a thousand migrants with a ferry in the port of Piraeus. Another 1500 would be in the afternoon arrive with another ferry.

They stick with mostly rickety boats to the Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos. Hence they proceed to Piraeus in Athens.