According to the Croatian press, the number of migrants trying to reach Western Europe via Albania is increasing, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia
Of Alessandra Benignetti
Despite the six billion euro pact between Brussels and Ankara to contain the flow of migrants and integrate 3,7 million refugees Syrians in Turkish territory, the landings towards the coasts of Greece continue.
The news of the shipwreck of a small boat on board dates back to the beginning of February 84 Syrian migrants off Mersin, in the south of Türkiye. The tragedy was avoided thanks to the intervention of the Turkish coast guard. After being rescued, the refugees were identified and placed in temporary custody. But like them, in many, especially Afghans, Pakistanis and Syrians, they do not give up and challenge the controls to undertake the long march towards Western Europe. The goal is always the same. To change, Instead, it is the itinerary.
No longer the old Balkan route, inaccessible from 2016, but a new path, which crosses Albania from Greece, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia. An unprecedented route though, assures the Croatian newspaper Morning paper (“The Morning Sheet”), would be "increasingly beaten" by refugees, including those of Algerian and Moroccan nationality. The news spread by Croatian newspapers, was relaunched byAnsa, which explains how to avoid being blocked in Serbia or Macedonia, i migrants landed in Greece they now cross the country to the border with Albania, going up the Balkan Peninsula by bus and taxi through Montenegro, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. After landing in Velika Kladusa, a few meters from the Croatian border, the refugees continue traveling through the central regions of the Croatia, fine and Karlovac.
From here, it is not difficult to reach the natural border with Slovenia, marked by the Kupa River. And it is precisely by wading into the waterway that the refugees land, In the end, in the Slovenian municipality of Crnomelj. According to the Croatian press there would be more and more, perhaps thanks to word of mouth, the refugees who venture on this route, along which the "victims" would also be significantly increasing. To the point that local newspapers did not hesitate to rename it as the "new Balkan route". According to the US agency Reuters they would be approx 4.500 migrants stuck in government-run refugee camps in Serbia, where hundreds of desperate people in search of a new existence continue to arrive from Turkey, through neighboring Bulgaria.
Source: http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mondo/migranti-sempre-pi-arrivano-europa-nuova-rotta-balcanica-1493668.html