Tens of illegal migrants have set up camp during the past 24 hours outside the Railway Station of Alexandroupolis in the northeast waiting to board passenger trains to Athens after receiving temporary residence papers allowing them to leave the reception centres in the area.

Local residents and tourists arriving at the station come face to face with the unfamiliar picture of a clothes’ line that stretches along the railway station for hundreds of meters as the illegal migrants hang their clothes to dry after washing them in a nearby fountain.

According to the Evros Border Guards’ Union extra personnel and supplies are necessary to deal with the increased number of illegal migrants trying to cross the borders with Turkey and enter into Greece, a phenomenon that reaches its peak during the summer months.