The question of whether Germany should accept refugees from Moria is dividing the country.
Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow is also experiencing resistance in Thuringia.
The
fire in the Moria refugee camp left
thousands of people homeless.
In Germany, Thuringia's Prime Minister Ramelow wants to take in refugees.
A city in the state defends itself against it - the state father counters.
Erfurt / Suhl - A devastating
fire completely
destroyed the
refugee camp Moria
*
on the
Greek island of Lesbos
.
Almost 13,000 people were made homeless by the destructive flames.
Within the EU and Germany, there is disagreement about the
recording
*
the people in need.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer
(
CSU
*
) was persuaded to find a solution after initial concerns, according to which Germany will accept almost 1,500 people from Moria.
Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow
even spoke out in favor of accommodating around 2000 people in the Federal Republic and wanted to lead the way in his state.
However, with this plea of pushed
left
*
-
politicians
in the home resistance.
Dispute over Moria refugees: Thuringian city shoots against Prime Minister Ramelow
The
Lord Mayor of
the Thuringian city of
Suhl
rejected Ramelow's proposal and pointed out that there were no capacities for accepting refugees from Greece and that they had to be created first.
"As far as I can look to Suhl and the initial reception facilities, I have to contradict that we have capacities there," said Andre Knapp.
"The facilities are operated under pandemic conditions - we have Corona - under so-called exceptional conditions." In Suhl, with an envisaged limit of 300 people within the facilities, 600 people are already overcrowded, said the
CDU *
man.
Dispute over Moria refugees: Prime Minister Ramelow counters concerns from Suhl
However, the Prime Minister did not want to leave this uncommented.
Ramelow reacted
on
to the statements of the mayor of Suhl.
"Just a few facts: The city of Suhl has not had to accept refugees for a long time because the state initial reception is on the Suhler Friedberg," he wrote on the social network.
“There was no distribution of refugees there for weeks due to Corona.
This frees up capacities, ”argued the father of Thuringia.
Just a few facts:
The city of Suhl has not had to accept refugees for a long time, because the state initial reception is on the Suhler Friedberg.
There was no distribution of refugees for weeks due to Corona.
Thereby capacities are & become free.
https://t.co/F2so8w7AFe
- Bodo Ramelow (@bodoramelow) September 18, 2020
In addition, Ramelow defended himself in another
tweet
against criticism of his membership
plans
by a former CDU member of the state parliament.
This spoke of "numerous crimes and administrative offenses" by the residents of the initial reception facilities in Suhl.
Ramelow rejected this sharply and denounced such a formulation - with "generalizations one would make all those seeking protection into perpetrators and all residents into victims".
Meanwhile, on Friday,
Thuringia and Berlin
tried to facilitate the admission of refugees from Greece through their own state programs, initially
failed
in the
Federal Council
.
The envisaged
legislative initiative
did not achieve a majority
in the
regional chamber
.
(kh) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network
Video: Ramelow shows Thuringia's AfD state spokesman Möller the finger
