Fires have destroyed Greece's largest migrant camp, an overcrowded facility on the island of Lesbos (Moria), leaving nearly 13,000 people without shelter. In addition to this, authorities placed the Moria camp under quarantine last week after a Somali migrant tested positive for the coronavirus. There are now 35 confirmed cases linked to the site. It is unclear exactly how the fires started, but Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said the "incidents in Moria began with the asylum seekers because of the quarantine imposed". Marco Sandrone, Lesbos project co-ordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said it was a bomb that finally exploded and that people had been kept in "inhumane conditions" at the site for years. German foreign minister Heiko Maas described the blaze as a "humanitarian disaster" and tweeted about "the distribution of refugees among those willing to accept admission in the EU".
Comment: This disaster will lead to the next round of the ongoing migrant crisis the European Union is dealing with and arguing about since 2015. It is important that they come up with a uniform solution for the union of states that wants to be seen as a community of values; otherwise, inhuman conditions are accepted and the main purpose of the European Union unsatisfied.
Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54082201
Jan Mueller
No comments:
Post a Comment