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
Moria
for months - now not only in the figurative sense.
In the
refugee camp
on the Greek island
of Lesbos
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
Georg Schwarte
from the
NDR
yesterday, meaning that the
EU
failed
to find
a unified solution to the
humanitarian disaster
on the ground until the very end for the residents of
Moria
since the outbreak of the
coronavirus pandemic *
no longer about life - only about survival, so Schwarte.
Video: On Wednesday evening, thousands of Germans protested for the admission of refugees from Moria
Sandra Maischberger on ARD
also
talked
about “the pictures of this week” on Wednesday evening
.
For a short time, the editorial team took the brand new topic
Moria
onto the broadcast list.
Maischberger's guests included the political scientist Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, the deputy editor-in-chief of
Die
Welt
,
Robin Alexander
, as well as
SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken
and the
taz
columnist Bettina Gaus
.
The latter may well have split the views of the audience with one of her statements.
She too is of the opinion that
Moria is
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
Moria refugee camp has
dominated the international press since Wednesday morning, and there are constant appeals for
donations on
social networks
.
The need of the refugees on
Lesbos
is great, as thousands do not know where to find
shelter
.
But even after this
catastrophe
, the
EU is
divided - there is currently still the suspicion that the
refugees
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
Reichstag building in Berlin
- a silent protest to
draw attention to
the "
Hell of Moria
".
This did nothing - apparently neither did the
fire
.
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
CDU
announced
yesterday
.
"These overcrowded camps in Greece have been a disgrace for the EU for months,"
Gaus
said
yesterday at
Maischberger
- 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,
Gaus
also understands the Greek
villagers
who, because of the same fear - the fear of the
coronavirus
-
would prevent
the
refugees
from entering their village.
Either way, the journalist is pillorying the
EU
, after all it cannot be that a few thousand people have to suffer from the question of whether a
pan-European solution can
finally be found
for the inhumane conditions of
refugees
in
Greece
.
However the fire broke out, she sees the
politicians as
having
immediate responsibility: “Help first, the blame comes later,” the
taz
columnist's appeal
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
world editor-in-chief Robin Alexander
sees a
need for
action
not with
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer
, to whom the white chairs in Berlin were addressed, but with
Greece
itself: “These camps should always have the purpose of processing the asylum procedures there,” says Alexander.
Irregular migrants have to be brought
back to
Turkey
, because the situation in the camps there is better than in
Greece
.
Greece must finally accept this responsibility.
SPD leader Saskia Esken
, on the other hand, pleads for a
pan-European solution approach
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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