(AFP) Pakistani asylum seeker Mohamed Bilal was 15 when he arrived in Greece. Five years later, he’s lost all hope and is on the road again, desperate for a better life elsewhere.
Since the conservative government took office in 2019, Greece has steadily tightened asylum policies, rejecting thousands of applications and expelling hundreds of people from camps.
Camped out in Idomeni near the Greek border with North Macedonia, migrants say they are leaving, doubtful they will ever acquire legal rights in Greece, no matter how long they wait.
“After all these years I’m still unable to get legalisation papers,” Bilal told AFP.
“I risk getting caught and sent back to my country. I don’t want that to happen, so I’m trying to get to another European country.”
