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High life

Athens today makes me long for an EU bigwig to strangle

Witnessing the suffering of migrants and Greeks alike, I have murder in my heart

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

 

 Athens

I am walking around downtown Athens watching as thousands of migrants field pitches from smugglers offering alternative routes to Germany and Austria. I ask a friendly policeman 50 years younger than me why he doesn’t arrest the smugglers and throw away the key. ‘Others will take their place quicker than we put the handcuffs on them,’ he tells me.

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