Fleeing war, Syrian migrants face new misery:One family fled fighting in Aleppo and is now struggling to flee Greece

Syrian shopkeeper Osama fled the fighting in Aleppo convinced he would be welcomed in Europe. Five months later, he is stuck in Greece, where money and sympathy are scarce. Beaten up and robbed by traffickers when they arrived in Athens, Osama, his wife and two children were arrested as undocumented immigrants and thrown into detention when they recounted their ordeal to Greek police. Ordered out of Greece but without any place to go, he rues the day he set foot in the country.
(12.03.2013) EnetEnglish
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