(AFP) Hundreds of protesters on the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday threw stones at police who responded with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets, an AFP photographer said, on a second day of demonstrations against the construction of new migrant camps.
“You’re going to die here,” one protester shouted at police, as others screamed obscenities at them.
Ten protesters and dozens of police officers were lightly injured in the daylong clashes in Mantamados, a village near a construction site for a camp to house 7,000 migrants, a police source said.
“We are in a wartime situation,” local priest Father Stratis told AFP. “(The police) have the weapons, we have our heart and soul.”
