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Tourists rush: Greece evicts refugees from Athens
As summer tourists begin to warm up, the Greek government has moved ten of thousands of tourist from camps in central Athens to new settlements on the city’s outskirts.
The country is expecting a rush of tourists numbering close to 23 million this year, and they are expected to bring in about $20bn in revenue.
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Makeshift camps which littered the streets of the Greek capital which were home to refugees from Syria and other countries for months are now disappearing as residents are bussed out to new settlements far from the eyes of tourists on whom Greece’s faltering economy relies.
The new camps are air-conditioned and provide adequate sanitation facilities, a big improvement on the old ones, which lacked the most basic necessities.
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