Police clash with migrants seeking to board Piraeus-bound ferry
Police fired stun grenades Friday to disperse hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers attempting to board a Piraeus-bound ferry from the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, reports said.
According to early reports, a group of about 1,000 people, mostly migrants from Afghanistan, sought to make their way into the Blue Star 1, shouting “Athens-Athens.”
Lesvos is one of several Greek islands inundated by thousands of migrants and refugees crossing from Turkey in flimsy boats in the hope of traveling onward to western Europe.
