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May 29, 2006
Well that was interesting
Traveling down from Thessaloniki to Athens by bus, it seems that the police are taking rather active measures at cracking down on illegal immigrants. Today, the police stopped the bus after a toll station (presumably at random-- this was the first time I've seen this happen) and boarded. Keep in mind that we were nowhere near a border crossing. They then looked around and asked anyone on the bus whose complexion was darker than the typical Greek's to produce his papers. Charming. I don't normally mind having to produce my passport when I check in at hotels or need to produce some sort of ID for various reasons, but, as I've said before I find it somewhat distasteful to be asked to produce "my papers" for day-to-day interactions, even if, in this particular case, I wasn't targetted.
Posted by Dean at May 29, 2006 6:48 PM
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