Fire as a catastrophe with an announcement? - "If it was infected by refugees, I could understand that"

Moria is on fire - this news went around the world yesterday.

While thousands are protesting in Germany for the admission of the refugees, a columnist on ARD ensures the excitement of the evening.

• The

  Moria refugee camp

  on the

  Greek island of Lesbos

  burned down almost completely on Wednesday * -

  Refugees

  are now suspected of having started the

  fire

  themselves.

• The 13,000

  or so

  residents of

  Moria

  are now homeless.

  The

  EU

  continues to struggle for a uniform solution for taking in

  refugees

  - so far without any result.

• At

  Sandra Maischberger's

  Wednesday evening, a

  taz

  columnist made

  a statement about the cause of the fire for the excitement of the evening.

Lesbos -

It has been burning

in

for months - now not only in the figurative sense.

In the

on the Greek island

Wednesday morning has broken out a fire, what still possess the refugees, has the accommodations and destroyed.

The camp is designed for 2,800 people, but around 13,000 are currently expected to live there.

"The shame of Europe is going up in flames," wrote

from the

yesterday, meaning that the

failed

to find

a unified solution to the

on the ground until the very end for the residents of

since the outbreak of the

no longer about life - only about survival, so Schwarte.

Video: On Wednesday evening, thousands of Germans protested for the admission of refugees from Moria

also

about “the pictures of this week” on Wednesday evening

.

For a short time, the editorial team took the brand new topic

onto the broadcast list.

Maischberger's guests included the political scientist Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, the deputy editor-in-chief of

,

, as well as

 and the

.

The latter may well have split the views of the audience with one of her statements.

She too is of the opinion that

the “disgrace of Europe” - and that the flaming inferno was actually just a “catastrophe with announcement”.

At Maischberger on ARD: taz columnist delivers the excitement of the evening

The fire in the

dominated the international press since Wednesday morning, and there are constant appeals for

social networks

.

The need of the refugees on

is great, as thousands do not know where to find

shelter

.

But even after this

, the

divided - there is currently still the suspicion that the

themselves might have set the camp on fire.

Can the EU member states now come up with a uniform solution or does each country decide for itself how and whether it helps?

These are the questions of the hour.

13,000 chairs recently stood in front of the

- a silent protest to

draw attention to

the "

".

This did nothing - apparently neither did the

.

Because "Germany going it alone would not be helpful because it could give the impression that Germany would accept the refugees on its own," the

announced

yesterday

.

"These overcrowded camps in Greece have been a disgrace for the EU for months,"

said

yesterday at

- and even admits regarding the cause of the fire in Moria:

"If the camp was infected by refugees, I could understand!"

@ tazgezwitscher columnist Bettina #Gaus about the terrible pictures from #Moria.

What does the disaster say about the state of European # refugee policy?

@DasErste #maischberger pic.twitter.com/KGzWgjfW82

- Maischberger (@maischberger) September 9, 2020

If it was infected by refugees, I could understand - when an epidemic rages through a completely overcrowded camp with four times the occupancy as originally intended and people are simply scared.

Bettina Gaus, columnist for the taz

On the other hand,

also understands the Greek

who, because of the same fear - the fear of the

-

would prevent

the

from entering their village.

Either way, the journalist is pillorying the

, after all it cannot be that a few thousand people have to suffer from the question of whether a

finally be found

for the inhumane conditions of

in

.

However the fire broke out, she sees the

having

immediate responsibility: “Help first, the blame comes later,” the

on Wednesday evening.

European refugee debate continues: Who will take responsibility for the refugees from Moria?

+

Sandra Maischberger on ARD was on Wednesday evening, among other things, on the subject of "Fire in Moria".

© Screenshot "Maischberger - Die Woche" / ARD

The deputy

sees a

need for

action

not with

, to whom the white chairs in Berlin were addressed, but with

itself: “These camps should always have the purpose of processing the asylum procedures there,” says Alexander.

Irregular migrants have to be brought

back to

, because the situation in the camps there is better than in

.

Greece must finally accept this responsibility.

SPD leader Saskia Esken

, on the other hand, pleads for a

at Maischberger

- Germany will help and take in refugees, but not all and not as the only country, so the tenor: "We will not take in 13,000 people alone, that will not be the way. but we will make a significant contribution to it. "

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