AP, Athens
The Greek government said Monday it will set up loudspeakers at the country’s border with Macedonia to try and persuade thousands of refugees and migrants to ignore false rumors that the Balkan route to central Europe will reopen.
More than 15,000 people — nearly a third of the total stranded in Greece — are refusing to move to government-built shelters around the country, and remain at the border with Macedonia and at the port of Piraeus, near Athens.
A spokesman for a government refugee crisis committee said authorities were struggling to counter false rumors on social media that borders could reopen.
People who are under strain and living in difficult conditions are receiving false reports.