Refugee crisis on Lesbos: Police clear camp Moria - "A bomb in terms of hygiene"

The situation of refugees on the island of Lesbos remains precarious.

A new emergency warehouse has now been set up.

The EU is discussing how to proceed.

• Thousands of people are homeless after the fire in the Moria refugee camp.

• A new makeshift camp is to take in a large number of the migrants.

• Meanwhile, the EU is working on a new line for dealing with refugees.

Lesbos

- Since the devastating

a week

ago in the

on the Greek island of

, the situation of the

hardly improved.

Many of the around 12,000 people

lost everything they owned

in the

.

Now a new, provisional

set up.

The Greek

now trying to relocate the migrants.

In the meantime, the

discussing how to proceed with the

in

.

Fire in the Moria camp: many refugees are afraid of new accommodation

On Thursday morning (September 17th) the Greek

started

to fetch

the last

from the burned down

*

.

The aim is a new, temporary

that the Greek authorities have set up.

"So far everything has been peaceful," said the Mainz doctor Gerhard Trabert, who is on site with an aid organization.

He estimates that I still have thousands of refugees in and around the former camp.

Around 2,000 migrants are said to have moved into

the new

so far.

But many people are afraid of being locked up there and want to be taken to mainland Greece instead.

The Lifeline Sea Rescue sees it that way too.

Strange selection right now: all families, women & children are forced into the new internment camp, while it is unclear what happens to the men who are traveling alone.

Will they be transferred to other detention centers or put on life rafts at sea?

#Moria pic.twitter.com/dbWcLYY5AU

- MISSION LIFELINE (@SEENOTRETTUNG) September 17, 2020

However, the responsible Greek officials see it differently.

“We have to get the people into the new

;

if they persevere on the street, it is a bomb in terms of hygiene, ”said the head of the Greek

(EODY), Panagiotis Arkoumaneas, on Thursday morning the Greek radio station Skai.

Around 170 officials are on duty. 

Fire in Moria camp: hearing of suspects on Saturday

Four Afghan refugees are at the

center of the investigation by the

into the

in

camp.

The Greek daily

reports that you should comment

on the allegations of having founded a criminal organization and

the

on Saturday

.

Two other suspects were brought to mainland Greece in a group of minors just the day after the disaster.

The 17-year-olds were then arrested

in a

in northern Greece.

You are due to

appear

before the

in

on Monday

.

Fire in Moria: EU Commission President von der Leyen calls for a common line after fire in Moria

The

on

should be

a wake-up call

for the

for joint action on

, said EU Commission President

in her address on the State of the European Union on Wednesday.

The tragedy on the

is "a painful reminder of the need for Europe to come together".

With a view to the planned

,

the abolition of the

.

Next week, we will put forward the New Pact on Migration.

We'll take a human & humane approach.

Saving lives at sea is not optional & those countries who fulfill their legal and moral duties or are more exposed than others, must be able to rely on the solidarity of our whole EU.

- Ursula von der Leyen - Follow #SOTEU (@vonderleyen) September 16, 2020

While the

still arguing about who will take in how many

, the

pushing

ahead.

"We are going to get rid of the

," she said.

"We will

replace

it with a new European

system." This will have "common structures for asylum and repatriation" and

contain

"a new strong

".

However, such a project has always failed due to dissenting votes, especially from Eastern Europe.

meanwhile welcomed the

plan

to take in another 1,553 refugees from Moria.

However, dealing with the refugees is a controversial issue from a domestic political point of view.

In their show “Joko & Klaas against ProSieben” the two entertainers won 15 minutes of broadcast time.

In the latest edition of it, the two showed a video of a refugee from Moria that was making waves on the internet.

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