(AP) Several hundred asylum-seekers camped outside a police station Monday in northern Greece, lining up to be arrested and formally processed as a surge in illegal migration overwhelmed authorities in the region.
After sleeping on benches and patches of grass in a central square in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, the migrants formed a line outside the police station, seeking a place at a migrant camp before the winter.
Karzan Hassan, a 22-year-old Iraqi Kurd, crossed into Greece last week and has slept outside the police station for the last two nights. He says he’s hoping to reach Britain with his two brothers after abandoning a plan to travel to Italy.
