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I saw genuine refugees pass through. Months earlier, Paris gunmen had been among them

Reporter Rosa Doherty visited the same Greek checkpoint used by the mastermind behind the Paris attacks

November 18, 2015 19:35
JC reporter, Rosa Doherty
4 min read

I stood at the flimsy, makeshift fence that separates Greece from Macedonia, which pens back thousands of refugees making their way to a new life in Europe.

Two Greek border patrol officers allowed them to pass through a small gap, single-file and in small groups; mothers with babies in their arms, young men carrying sheets of cardboard to save them sitting on the cold, hard ground.

No one checked passports, no one was stopped.

The officials, although carrying pistols in their belts, merely kept order and waved them through.