(AFP) The first rays of the morning sun reveal entire families lying on the railway line or in abandoned wagons but when Greek police patrols appear, they evaporate into nearby fields.
Among them is Abdullah, a 20-year-old Syrian, waiting for a train to take him to a better life.
In the buffer zone of Idomeni, on the border between Greece and Northern Macedonia, Abdullah watches for the right moment to sneak on to a train, in the hope of following the “Balkan route” taken by hundreds of thousands of migrants in 2015.
For the last few days he has been camping in a dilapidated building near the train station.
“I will do everything to cross the border,” Abdullah told AFP.
