Tear gas is fired as people protest against the so-called "hotspot" being built for refugees and migrants on the Aegean island of Kos, on February 14, 2015. © Stringer / AFP Police have fired tear gas at protesters on the Greek island of Kos, where several thousand people rallied against the construction of a refugee facility. Kos is a tourist hub that found itself on the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis last year. Locals fear that migrants will deter holiday makers from visiting the island. “Some 2,000 people have turned up to the protest on Sunday,” RT’s Nikki Aaron reported from Kos. “We want them to come, pass by, make their papers, and go away wherever they want to go. Here is a tourist place; we have people that come here for holidays – they can’t stay together [with refugees],” one of the demonstrators explained. Waving Greek national flags, the people marched from the center of the island to the abandoned army base outside the village of Pylio where the mig...
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