Egyptian immigrant Waleed Taleb says demanding his unpaid wages in Greece came at a heavy price; 18 hours chained and beaten by his boss, a stint in jail and orders to leave the country he calls home.
One of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who toil in Greece's black labor market, Taleb had just finished cleaning the bakery where he worked one November morning on the island of Salamina when he sparked his boss's fury.
What followed would end up symbolizing how migrants have become among the biggest and most defenseless victims of Greece's economic crisis, facing racist attacks, police apathy and a system that punishes them rather than their assailants.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/06/us-greece-migrants-idUSBRE8B50Y920121206
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