A cafe owner on the eastern Aegean island of Hios (Chios) fired into the air with a shotgun on Sunday afternoon to break-up a "rumble" between rival groups of irregular migrants temporarily hosted at a refugee camp near his business.
A cafe owner on the eastern Aegean island of Hios (Chios) fired into the air with a shotgun on Sunday afternoon to break-up a "rumble" between rival groups of irregular migrants temporarily hosted at a refugee camp near his business.
According to reports, the two rival groups -- Algerians and Afghans -- came to blows meters away from the Souda camp.
The latest flare-up in violence between rival groups of migrants on a Greek isle ostensibly started when one group tried to leave their overcrowded shelter and head for another.
The local man, according to police, fired five rounds into the air in order to prevent the fracas from pouring into his cafe.
He was later detained and will face a misdemeanor charge of discharging a weapon in an urban area.
At least six of the foreign nationals later sought treatment at a local hospital.
The fracas ended with the appearance of riot police.
Tens of thousands of third world nationals continue to be temporarily sheltered, often in dreadful conditions, on several eastern Aegean isles. The initial surge, roughly two years ago, in people being off-loaded on the isles mostly involved Mideast war refugees disembarking from the opposite west Turkish coast. However, rising numbers of foreign nationals -- mostly young men -- from sub-Saharan Africa to Bangladesh and beyond have illegally entered Greece - again from Turkey -- in a bid to reach preferred European destinations as would-be immigrants.