Greek governor wants to proclaim a state of emergency

- e governor of the Greek region of Central Macedonia wants to declare a state of emergency because of the continuing influx of refugees and unsustainable living conditions in the camps.

In the border town Idomeni are 13 000 people in camps and further south another five thousand, said Governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas Saturday against the Greek broadcaster Skai.

The refugees are moving towards northwest Europe stranded at the border with Macedonia, which is locked. Per day but left a few. The Greek government estimates the number of stranded migrants in Greece at 32. 000. Every day there via Turkey around 1900 at the Crisis Staff said in Athens.

The circumstances of the stranded migrants to be desired. Due to heavy rains, the soil turned into the makeshift refugee camp at Idomeni into a quagmire, while the temperature dropped to 4 degrees Celsius.