From 2015 through 2016, nearly 1.7 million people took a dangerous, expensive and often deadly voyage to enter Europe as refugees, according to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. The UNHCR estimates that over 5,000 people died in the Mediterranean Sea trying to get to Europe in 2016. Recent reports suggest that crossing the Sahara Desert is nearly as dangerous
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In Europe, they encountered fences and closed borders, exclusions and mass roundups, and bureaucratic delays in processing their applications. Governments put refugees in tents and camps with no heat for cold weather.
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While all the EU governments are treating refugees that enter their territory inhumanely, France stands out as particularly brutal. In the past, when Paris’ refugee center was full, refugees slept in tents scattered near metro stops. Then the cops would seize their tents. When refugees began using blankets to stay warm, cops seized the blankets.
22-01-2017
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Winter continues and the number of freezing deaths is expected to increase.
Other aspects not mentioned in this article:
– many refugees live outside camps because they will be deported if they go to a camp
– refugees living on the streets across Europe are constantly being attacked by far right groups and kidnapped for profit.
– refugees trying to escape hellish conditions in Greece deal with brutal police violence in Macedonia as well as with far right groups hunting them on their own
– groups trying to rescue refugees at sea or offer them shelter on land are increasingly criminalized and rescue vessels have been attacked by coast guards
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