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After the devastating fire in the Moria refugee camp, Berlin and Paris agreed on a common solution: 400 minors should be admitted to the European Union.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron want to take in 400 unaccompanied minors together with other EU countries after the great fire in the Greek refugee camp of Moria.
Merkel said in a discussion Thursday at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin that she had made a request to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
According to information from the German Press Agency in Berlin, the number 400 applies to all participating countries; on Thursday it was not initially known how many of them Germany would take, as stated.
Germany has already taken in 460 unaccompanied children
Germany has already taken in more than 460 unaccompanied children, sick children and their families from refugee camps on the islands. More recordings of sick children are already in preparation. The acceptance of unaccompanied minors now promised by Merkel and Macron, who have now been brought to the mainland by the Greek authorities, will take place regardless of this.
Meanwhile, the Greek government has rejected the rapid relocation of more refugees after the great fire in the Moria camp and identified the arson as the cause of the disaster. At the same time, 400 minors who are not accompanied by their parents were transferred from the island of Lesbos to the port city of Thessaloniki on Thursday.
The federal government previously emphasized that it would depend on aid in Moria
The Deputy Minister of Migration, Giorgos Koumoutsakos, ruled out that adult immigrants can also leave the island. On the Skai news channel he said: “If you think you can travel to the mainland and then to Germany, you must forget it.”
The question of whether Germany could, if necessary, take in more immigrants from the Greek islands on its own and without the involvement of other EU countries has been a dispute in Berlin since Wednesday. The federal government had stressed that it should depend on local aid and coordinate with Greece and EU partners. There were also voices from the Union calling for more recordings, for example from mainland Greece to alleviate the situation. Federal Development Minister Gerd Müller (CSU) demands that Germany go ahead and accept 2,000 migrants.
Pro asylum: act like there are thousands of European tourists
Pro Asylum requests an airlift to Germany and other European countries after the fire. Now the same measures must be taken “as if more than 10,000 European tourists were in serious danger,” the organization demands. Accommodation would have to be created, supplies secured, and medical personnel relocated.
According to the Minister of Labor, Hubertus Heil (SPD), the federal government wants to provide immediate assistance in Lesbos. For example, the technical aid organization on the island could be used, Heil said at the Phoenix station. On the Greek island, thousands of people spent the first night after the great fire in the streets around the destroyed camp of Moria. There were clashes with the police and tear gas was used. Some of the people will initially be staying on boats in the next few days.
Parliamentarians demanded that 5,000 people be admitted
In a letter to the Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer (CSU), 16 members of the Bundestag Union demanded the admission of 5,000 recognized refugees from mainland Greece. One of the signatories of the letter, the Union’s parliamentary group’s human rights policy spokesman, Michael Brand (CDU), emphasized in the SWR that these must be refugees who have already gone through an asylum procedure in Greece.
The Moria camp was almost completely destroyed in several simultaneous fires Wednesday night. Instead of the planned 3,000 migrants, more than 12,000 people stayed there. According to the Greek government, the immigrants started the great fire.
