Angelina Jolie visits refugees at Greek port in her UN role

This is the moment Angelina Jolie visited refugees in Athens in her role as a UN special envoy.

The Hollywood actress went to Athens’ main port of Piraeus, where about 4,000 people are waiting either to head north to Greece’s closed border with Macedonia, or for a place in rapidly filling official shelters.


Some 44,000 refugees and migrants, the last of the 143,000 who have entered Greece so far from Turkey in smugglers’ boats, are trapped in the country because of border closures on the Balkan route to Europe’s prosperous heartland. About 12,000 are in the greater Athens area.

She also spoke to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during her visit on Wednesday.

It came less than 24 hours after the US actress, and mother of six, visited an informal refugee camp in Lebanon.