Hundreds of Greeks marched in Athens on Thursday night to demand more solidarity with refugees, as it emerged that a Bulgarian border guard had shot dead an Afghan man trying to enter the country from Turkey.

Students, workers and human rights activists were among those rallying in the Greek capital, in support of
those fleeing war and persecution.

“We need to open the borders, to stop the fence, to bring down the fence in Evros so that we can create a safe passage for the refugees from Syria and Afghanistan to pass through the country and go wherever they want in Europe,” said protester Katerina Papadouli.

The migrant killed in Bulgaria had been travelling with a large group of refugees from Afghanistan when he was shot by a border police officer near the southeastern town of Sredets late on Thursday, according to a senior
interior ministry official.

“Our border patrol of border guards and police in the area had stumbled on 50 offenders, who illegally entered the country,” G