Greece to build anti-migrant fence

Greece plans a 12.5 km fence at its border with Turkey to prevent a wave of immigrants from flowing into the country, its public order ministry has said. Asian and African migrants increasingly use the northern Greece Evros border with Turkey to reach the EU, after the bloc stepped up surveillance at its sea borders and Spain and Italy signed repatriation deals with African countries. Last year, some 128,000 illegal immigrants crossed into Greece, more than 40,000 of them at the Evros border post, Christos Papoutsis, the citizen protection minister

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