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– Yes, the fire has increased sharply again, confirms Shirin Tinnesand to Dagbladet.
She is in Greece representing the Stand by Me Lesvos organization. The photos and videos that they and the Moria Corona Awareness team have posted on their Facebook pages show refugees are back on the streets.
Behind them you can see powerful flames.
– Much of the camp was completely destroyed Wednesday night, but we estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000 refugees chose to return to the unaffected areas and some tents were still standing, says Tinnesand.
According to NTB, there have been several new fires.
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Fear of violent clashes
The Moria Corona Awareness team writes in a Facebook video that they now fear chaos and violent clashes as the refugees have nowhere to go.
– In addition to the new fire, we get information that puts hostile local pressure on the situation and creates stress, Tinnesand tells Dagbladet.
The humanitarian worker says she has also been told that a fire has broken out at a camp associated with Moria and she believes the blaze Wednesday night was just the beginning.
– Now we walk and think: “What will be next?”. It seems that more things are going to happen and we are ready to turn around. The situation becomes more and more difficult with each passing day. This is likely not over, and we most likely have a demanding night ahead of us, says Tinnesand.
– Failed and inhumane policy
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.
She 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.”
– This is the result of a failed and inhumane policy for several years. If you lock people up in such conditions, it will slam shut at some point. We have been warning about this for a long time, he says.
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Homeless after the fires
Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis was able to confirm on Wednesday that no one was killed or injured in the fire that broke out in the camp on Wednesday night, according to the daily Kathimerini.
Tinnesand tells Dagbladet that several homeless people were initially going to be evacuated to the Karatepe refugee camp, but that they are now moving further down the main road towards Mytilini, which is the island’s capital.
– There are quite large groups that move there, he says.
The camp has housed just under 13,000 people, several of whom are also housed on a ferry, two warships and in tents, Mitarakis told a news conference in Lesbos on Wednesday.
He added that authorities have managed to find eight of the 35 patients who were isolated in a separate building on the outskirts of the camp after being diagnosed with coronary heart disease.
