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Refugees on the road from Moria to Mytilene
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Nine thousand refugees are now living in the new camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
This means that the provisional camp is almost full.
According to the Greek Ministry of Migration, the tent city built after the fire in the Moria refugee camp is designed for a maximum of ten thousand people.
According to official information, 12,700 people were left homeless in the fire ten days ago.
They were then forced to sleep on the side of the road, in parking lots and even in a cemetery.
Some found space under makeshift protective roofs or in camping tents.
The new camp was set up by the Greek authorities with the support of the United Nations.
It is located on a former military training area near the port of the island's capital, Mytilene.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) supports the new camp "as an interim solution".
However, it is not suitable for long-term accommodation for asylum seekers.
"The Greek authorities have to clarify the future of the location", announced the UNHCR.
According to the authorities, all newcomers to the new camp will be subjected to a corona test.
So far, 214 infections with the novel corona virus have been found.
Initially, most of the migrants had refused to go to the new camp.
They fear that they will be stuck there again for months under disastrous circumstances.
The police eventually increased pressure to get the homeless to move to the new camp.
The authorities threatened not to process the asylum applications of those who did not want to move to the new camp.
The Greek government had largely sealed off all refugee camps in the country in mid-March because of the corona pandemic.
The UNHCR and human rights activists repeatedly criticized the fact that the corona measures in the rest of the country have been gradually withdrawn, but the strict rules for refugee camps remained.
At the beginning of September, a source of infection of 35 infected people was discovered in the Moria camp.
A short time later the camp went up in flames.
Greek prosecutors accuse six young Afghans of starting the fires.
(A team of SPIEGEL editors reconstructed the case.)
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