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Arrival of young people at the end of the month
In Germany, young people are expected to arrive by the end of the month at the latest. An exact number can only be given once the talks with the other EU states have been concluded. “The 400 minors are a first step and this first step will be followed by another,” Seehofer explained. I wanted to focus on families with children.
Camp Moria was almost completely destroyed by numerous fires Wednesday night. Instead of the 3,000 expected migrants, nearly 13,000 people were accommodated there. Some of the residents are said to have started fires after quarantine was ordered for people in the camp due to corona infections. The “no solution” in the negotiations for a common European asylum policy led to the current catastrophic situation on Lesbos, Seehofer noted.
He reported that Greece made suggestions on Thursday on how Germany could help with housing and caring for the homeless at the site.
In Lesbos itself, however, the Greek government reinforced the police force. As Greek television showed, several buses with additional riot police and two water cannons aboard a ferry arrived in the island’s capital, Mytilini, on Friday morning. After the fire, conditions are chaotic on the island. More than 12,000 migrants spent the third night in a row outdoors. Some continued to set fire to the remaining parts of the camp and the surrounding fields.
Angry islanders
The reinforcement of police units is also targeting increasingly angry islanders. Many, including almost all mayors, no longer want migrants on the island after the Moria fire. “Everyone has to go. No more camping on Lesbo,” the governor of the North Aegean region, Kostas Moutzouris, said on television. There is fear, especially since at least 35 refugees have tested positive for the coronavirus and islanders fear an uncontrolled outbreak of the virus.
Residents repeatedly block access roads to places where the government plans to set up temporary camps to temporarily house the homeless. “We will not let that happen, no matter the cost,” the angry locals said. Most of the islanders are tired and disappointed with the EU. No one could bear that so many immigrants lived on an island for so long, he said.
“Moria no longer exists”
The European Commission vice president in charge of migration, Margaritis Schinas, said on Friday: “Moria no longer exists.” With the help of the European Union, a new and more modern facility will be created where asylum procedures can be carried out more quickly. I wanted to propose this to the Greek head of government. Schinas also confirmed that the EU Commission will present new proposals on September 30 for the reform of the EU’s migration and asylum policy, which had been blocked for years.
