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Also two children kidnapped on board. Seehofer calls on other EU countries to take a similar step.
12.18 p.m., April 18, 2020
At Hannover airport it’s saturday morning 47 unaccompanied minor refugees who had recently lived in camps on the Greek island. You are supposed to start with one two week quarantine in the Osnabrück district before they are distributed to the German federal states.
As announced by the Lower Saxony Home Office and the German Home Office, this is 42 children and um 5 teens4 of whom are accompanied by younger siblings. 4 of the minors are girls.
“I am pleased that we are able to receive the first unaccompanied children today, despite the serious stress caused by the crown crisis,” said the German. Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU). Minister of the Interior of Lower Saxony Boris Pistorius (SPD) described the arrival of the refugee children as a start.
Unaccompanied children and adolescents were in refugee camps on the Greek islands. Lesbos, Samos and Chios hosted come from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea.
Two kidnapped children on board
The migration ministry in Athens initially mentioned 49 minors after the start. According to the German ministries, in addition to the 47, there were also 2 children on board. kidnapped to Greece by his father they went and were returned to their mother who lived in Germany.
The number is still slightly lower than expected. The Interior Ministry said that some of the selected children and adolescents had been classified as unfit for travel.
The relief operation had been repeatedly delayed, in part due to the crown crisis. According to the German Interior Ministry, the objective is “to support Greece in the difficult humanitarian situation in the Greek islands.” Aid organizations criticize the number of those who are now admitted as too small.
Some 39,000 people are currently in the island camps in the eastern Aegean. About 36 percent are, according to the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) Minors A good 90 percent of minors are children.
The plan foresees a total of 1,600 young people who will be brought from the Greek islands to other EU countries. A total of ten EU member states have agreed to do so. Austria does not participate.
