About 9,000 people have been stuck in Idomeni refugee camp for four months

Greek police are investigating claims that migrants trapped on the border with Macedonia have set up makeshift brothels and are pimping destitute asylum seekers for as little as €5.

Criminal gangs run by Iraqi and Moroccan migrants are alleged to have established operations in an abandoned train wagon and adjacent warehouse close to the Idomeni refugee camp, with a sign that reads “road to the roses” in Arabic, according to a local television report.

More than 9,000 migrants have been camped out at Idomeni for more than four months after Macedonia and other countries sealed their borders.

Eleftheros Typos, a daily newspaper in Athens, reported that gangs were forcing vulnerable women to adopt them as protectors from other men at the camp. “We are