Refugees use train carriage to smash police barricade on Greece-Macedonia border

As tensions at the Greek-Macedonian border continue to mount, a group of refugees has hijacked a train carriage at Idomeni station and attempted to use it to break through the police barricade.

Several hundred refugees pushed the wagon towards the border with their bare hands, having filled the carriage with rocks intended to be used as weapons against the police.


They were stopped by the Greek police, who eventually managed to persuade the crowd to move the train carriage to its original position.

Members of the group told RT’s Ruptly video agency that the seizing of the wagon was retaliation for brutal behaviour by police guarding the border.

"Yesterday they oppressed us, hit us with tear gas, rubber bullets, five caliber. They detained 10 of our friends, took them, beat them up, they even broke some bones," a young man, who covered his face with a bandana, said.





RT