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Minor refugees on Lesbos (archive image)
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After the fire in the Greek refugee camp Moria, according to a newspaper report, around 50 unaccompanied underage refugees came to Germany on Wednesday.
18 children in need of treatment and their families, who had already been promised admission before the fire, reported "Bild am Sonntag" with reference to information from the Ministry of the Interior, are said to sit with them on the plane.
A total of 400 minors have therefore already been brought from Lesbos to mainland Greece.
Several countries had agreed to accept these refugees - a total of 150 are allowed to enter Germany.
Nine thousand refugees are living in a new makeshift camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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.
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.
According to official information, 12,700 people were made homeless in the fire.
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.
Greek prosecutors accuse six young Afghans of starting the fires.
(A team of SPIEGEL editors reconstructed the case.)
Algeria's coast guard arrives at hundreds of migrants
Meanwhile, the Algerian coast guard has recovered three bodies in the Mediterranean within a week and prevented more than 750 other migrants from crossing to Europe.
The Ministry of Defense said that several boats carrying 755 migrants were picked up off the Algerian coast from Sunday to Friday.
On Monday, the Ministry had already announced that ten people had drowned and 485 migrants had been arrested in the previous days.
The majority of migrants who travel to Europe from Algeria are Algerian citizens.
Despite a law from 2009 that provides for penalties of up to six months for emigrants without the required documents, thousands of mostly young Algerians are making the dangerous journey.
According to current figures from the European border protection agency Frontex, more than 6000 Algerians arrived illegally in Europe in the first eight months of 2020.
According to some experts, the number of unreported cases is likely to be significantly higher.
According to Spanish media reports, more than 800 Algerians landed on the Spanish coast on the last weekend in July alone.
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