As a result of the crisis in Afghanistan and the continuing prospect of a mass influx of Muslim migrants, Greece has completed a 40-kilometer (25-mile) border wall along the Turkish border. Greece has been flooded with Muslim migrants in the recent past. The country’s knowledge of and experience with the horrors of unvetted Muslim migration is key. Minister of Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos stated: “We support the democratic rights and freedoms of the people, but at the same time we cannot allow the instrumentalization of the migratory flows that may arise.”
According to a UN report, featured in Bloomberg, “there are approximately 8,000 to 10,000 foreign jihadists in Afghanistan. The majority are affiliated with the Taliban, many are allied with al-Qaeda or Islamic State.” There are no effective safeguards against these jihadis returning to their countries of origin. There are also no effective safeguards against jihadis traveling to Europe and North America with Afghan refugees.
Other European nations, including Hungary, Poland, and Lithuania, have recently constructed border barriers.
“Chrysochoidis – Panagiotopoulos: Our borders will remain secure and inviolable,” translated from “Χρυσοχοΐδης – Παναγιωτόπουλος: Τα σύνορά μας θα παραμείνουν ασφαλή και απαραβίαστα,” Kathimerini, August 20, 2021:
After the inspection of the fence in Evros and the measures for the protection of the borders, the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis, in joint statements with the Minister of Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos, stressed, among other things, that “our borders will remain safe and inviolable.”“It is our decision – and this is the order of the prime minister that we are conveying today to the officers of the Armed Forces and the Greek Police and to the local bodies – to defend our borders. Our borders will remain secure and inviolable.“We will not allow unauthorized and erratic movements and we will not allow any attempt to violate them,” said the Minister of Citizen Protection.Chrysochoidis: “Afghan crisis creates new data”“The Afghan crisis is creating new data in the geopolitical sphere, and at the same time it is creating opportunities for migration flows. It is known that we as a European country participate in the institutions of the European Union, and within this framework a number of decisions are taken; however, as a country we can not wait impatiently for the possible consequences,” noted Mr. Chrysochoidis. He added: “We support the democratic rights and freedoms of the people, but at the same time we cannot allow the instrumentalization of the migratory flows that may arise.”Panagiotopoulos: “Greece continues to be shielded against any threat”For his part, Mr. Panagiotopoulos assured that “Greece continues to be shielded against any potential or existing security threat,” and that what was found in the places they visited with Mr. Chrysochoidis, but also along all land borders, is “the excellent and upgraded operation of the border guard systems, with the valuable assistance of all ELAS and Armed Forces executives in terms of harmonious and excellent cooperation between them, but also with the development of state-of-the-art surveillance systems.” In fact, as he noted, “we looked at ways to strengthen these systems.”Mr. Chrysochoidis also referred to the “significant upgrade of border security and protection compared to 18 months ago, when the crisis in Evros took place,” noting: “The construction of the fence, which is about 40 km long at critical points of our borders, by the way, is not the only project that is admirable, that creates possibilities and conditions for deterrence. The integrated automated electronic border surveillance system has also been completed. We visited it today for the first time and it is starting to work these days. It is extremely technologically advanced, with great potential and efficiency in border surveillance.”“Very specific operational measures have been decided”Regarding the previous meeting, he noted that “a number of very specific operational measures have been decided, which will be deployed in the next period of time and will create further deterrent capacity.” He praised the harmonious cooperation between the Armed Forces, the Greek Army and the Greek Police, each with distinct roles, but at the same time with many combined actions. He also praised “the effort and the work that the Greek Army produces here in the region and in border security by creating a series of deterrent conditions, which strengthens our borders every day. There is now a lot of know-how, a lot of experience, a lot of training, and most importantly, what exists is high morale and high vigilance.”
Walter Sieruk says
Those government officials of Greece are showing wisdom and good judgement in that construction border wall to keep out all thoses Muslim migrants from Afghanistan.
This is so because those officials of Greek government must well understand that the Job and duty of any genuine nation is to safeguard and protect the lives its citizens .
For many male Muslim migrants ,as observed in other countries of Europe with their brutal vicious Islamic misogyny do sexually assault and even rape the girls and women of the different countries of Europe.
Furthermore, the risk is high that some of those Muslim migrants from Afghanistan might actually be violent jihadists who are scheming to commit violent and deadly actions of Muslim terrorism in Greece.
To just think about it of government .officials of Greece are doing their duty by having that border wall constructed.. In contrast that evil man ,Joe Biden had stopped and even reversed that building of that US /Mexican borders security wall.
GFF says
It’s atrocious to think that these ‘iron curtains’ (cf. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Iron-Curtain-Speech)
are necessary. Tangible barriers to ideological/cultural differences are ugly and no friend to fauna but ‘jawing’ about defending our way of life and loved ones simply doesn’t work.
gravenimage says
GFF, you are mistaken. The Iron Curtain prevented people from fleeing Communism.
This fence is meant to keep violent invaders out. It is sad that this is necessary, but the alternative is much worse.
And when one of those “ideological/cultural differences” is the vicious creed of Islam, keeping it out is *not* ugly–just the opposite.
You are right about fences often being harmful to fauna, but I don’t see a good alternative. Islamic countries besides everything else are brutal to animals.
Ray Jarman says
But what about the Greek islands that have been devastated by animals claiming to be refugees? When is the Greek government going to return the islands to its own people?
GreekEmpress says
Good question. I’ve been waiting for an answer on that for a long time.
gravenimage says
This fence is a good first step–hardly the whole solution.
john smith says
While the western world is opening doors to the invaders, the countries with proper leaders are building barriers. Even Iran and Turkey have constructed walls, and you’d have to be a pretty hard pressed migrant if you wanted to end up in Iran.
Infidel says
The Greek leadership: do they geography?
Greece has no borders w/ Afghanistan: there are at least 2 countries in b/w – Turkey and Iran. Greece is doing the right thing by building a wall in Thrace, but that wall is w/ Turkey, and Greece indeed must stop anyone from Turkey from crossing into Greece. Not just Afghans, Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, but also Turks themselves
SAFI says
I believe Greece has already granted asylum to several maybe tens of thousands of Turkish and Kurdish “gulenist terrorists” and others persecuted by the Erdogan regime, especially post 2016 “coup”, many of them are turkish military personel. I’m not so sure about the wisdom of Greece letting so many Turks in the country even if they’re anti-govt supposedly. In any case unfortunately the wall can’t do anything to stop “refugees” who arrive in Greece by sea, (a Turk I was talking to yesterday gloated over this fact) so I expect Turkey to simply adjust the smuggling routes so that most of the refugees from (landlocked) Afghanistan will be arriving in Europe by boat from now on.
gravenimage says
Greece builds border wall to protect country from illegal Afghan Muslim migrant influx
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*Good*. Greece at least recognizes the threat.
OLD GUY says
I wonder where they got that idea? Somebody tell Biden that walls work, please.