Greek Police Fire Tear Gas at Migrants as Border Convoy Grows

A woman holds her baby in front of riot police as migrants and refugees, who say that they seek to travel onward to northern Europe, walk away from a camp near the town of Diavata in northern Greece, on April 5, 2019. Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters

ATHENS/DIAVATA, Greece—Greek police fired tear gas on April 5 to disperse migrants who had gathered in a field near the country’s border with Northern Macedonia in the hope of making their way illegally up through the Balkans toward northern Europe.

Hundreds have made their way to the field in the village of Diavata since Thursday, galvanized by reports on social media of plans for an organized movement to cross Greece’s northwest border with Albania in early April.