“We had to close the park because it was overrun with immigrants,” Local Councilor Spyros Dianatos tells RT. “They’d piss everywhere in the park, near the church mural. No one could cross the park, everybody was scared, and no Greek people could come here. It was not a playground anymore.”

From RT News, Nov. 1:

Over the last few years, illegal immigration into Europe and Greece in particular has skyrocketed, whilst the Greek economy has plummeted.

“The crisis has led to unemployment, to poverty, increasing to a lot of people not being able to make ends meet,” Professor of Economics Tsakalotos Efklidis explains.

Faced with these tough economic conditions, it is not just extreme factions of society that have seen a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment...

The streets of Athens have become a kind of limbo now for illegal immigrants, who are struggling to make money and survive.

Edtior's note - Meanwhile, the mainstream media focuses solely on the economic side of the equation.