Protests on Lesbos Police use tear gas against refugees

Lesbos
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On Les­bos, thou­sands of migrants are home­less after the fire in the Moria refugee camp. New tents should improve the sit­u­a­tion, but a trans­fer to the main­land or even to oth­er EU coun­tries should only be avail­able for very few. Des­per­ate peo­ple protest, the police take tough action. On the Greek island of Lesvos, police used tear gas against a group of migrants protest­ing their des­per­ate sit­u­a­tion after the fire in Moria camp. Ten­sions erupt­ed on Sat­ur­day as hun­dreds of migrants marched on a street to the port of Myti­lene chant­i­ng “Free­dom” and “No camp”. The police blocked the entrance. … ear­ly in the morn­ing the fire raged on, fanned by winds of up to 70 kilo­me­ters per hour.

99 per­cent of the camp destroyed. Moria refugee camp is on fire

Some pro­test­ers held up hand­writ­ten posters that read “We don’t want to go back to a hell like Moria” and “Can you hear us, Ms. Merkel?” Five years ago, Chan­cel­lor Angela Merkel opened the Ger­man bor­ders to many thou­sands of refugees. Many EU coun­tries like the Fed­er­al Repub­lic of Ger­many took in refugees, but some still refuse to do so today. “We sleep in the dirt or on the street,” report­ed a group of for­mer camp res­i­dents on Face­book. “We have noth­ing to cov­er our­selves with, not even a jack­et to pro­tect us from the night cold and the wind.” Some fugi­tives even slept under the trees in the local ceme­tery. In addi­tion, there is con­cern about the spread of the coro­na virus by infect­ed camp res­i­dents who have still not been found, the group said. Accord­ing to the Greek news agency ANA, the fires were start­ed on Tues­day after protests by some res­i­dents of the camp, who were to be quar­an­tined after a pos­i­tive coro­na test.
Call for more refugees to be accept­ed in Germany.

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The fire in the over­crowd­ed Moria camp on Wednes­day left more than 12,000 peo­ple, most­ly from Africa and Afghanistan, home­less. Most held out in the open air. The Greek gov­ern­ment sent ships to Lesvos to give fam­i­lies and par­tic­u­lar­ly needy peo­ple new places to sleep. Now a new tem­po­rary tent camp is to be set up. How­ev­er, the Greek gov­ern­ment rejects a trans­fer to the main­land — despite the grow­ing resis­tance of the pop­u­la­tion of Les­bos against the camp. The fire that com­plete­ly destroyed Moria has brought the debate about the dis­tri­b­u­tion of refugees in the Euro­pean Union back to the cen­ter. Fed­er­al Devel­op­ment Min­is­ter Gerd Müller urged the admis­sion of more migrants from Moria than planned. Ger­many could set an exam­ple and accept 2000 peo­ple, said the CSU politi­cian to Deutsch­land­funk. Moria is a final wake-up call for the EU. After five years of refugee debate, the time had come to no longer rely on a uni­form Euro­pean line. Admit­ting 400 minors could only be the first step, said Scholz after a meet­ing of EU finance and eco­nom­ics min­is­ters. “That has to be more.” A clear step is need­ed for Ger­many, regard­less of whether oth­er EU states join in. Scholz spoke of “ter­ri­ble fates” in Moria. This shows what has gone wrong in Euro­pean refugee pol­i­cy in recent years. Hope­ful­ly the sit­u­a­tion will at least con­tribute to a faster under­stand­ing with­in the EU.

Fed­er­al Inte­ri­or Min­is­ter Horst See­hofer announced on Fri­day that Ger­many would accept 100 to 150 unac­com­pa­nied minor refugees. A total of nine EU states and Switzer­land have so far agreed to allow the approx­i­mate­ly 400 peo­ple from the camp to enter, accord­ing to the CSU politician.

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