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A large fire destroyed much of the camp until Wednesday night, but many asylum seekers still remain in the camp because they have nowhere to go.
Psychologist Katrin Glatz Brubakk, who has worked several times at the Médecins Sans Frontières camp, tells NTB that it was probably frustrated residents who started the fires.
– Neighbors were evacuated during the first fire and people fled into the woods and olive groves. After this, some have returned and there will still be room for around 4,500 people after the first fire, Brubakk says.
The fire occurred north of the Moria camp, where a group of tents was not touched by the powerful fire that raged last night.
Brubakk believes that it is the very frustrated and desperate residents who are behind the fires, “people who think they can no longer live in the conditions of the countryside.”
ABUSED: Photos show that parts of the camp are completely overheated Wednesday night. Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP
– This is the result of a failed and inhumane policy for several years. If you lock people up in such conditions, at some point it will slam shut. We have been warning about this for a long time, he says.
The fire brigade at the site is working to control the fire and evacuate people from the camp, writes the Kathimerini newspaper.
Norway has decided to speed up the recovery of 50 asylum seekers from the Moria camp. Several municipalities have offered to accept them, and several believe the number is too low.
