Four young Afghans have been charged with arson caused by their alleged involvement in the fires that destroyed most of a giant refugee camp on the eastern island of Lesbos, the Greek government said.
The court appearance came just hours after a chimney threatened a camp of more than 47,000 people on Samos Island due Tuesday night.
Men suspected of being involved in the September 8 fire in Lesbos, who have been appointed, were taken to court on the island on Wednesday for official charges.
Four young people gave the impression in the courts of the island of Lesbos after a devastating chimney on 8 September that destroyed the Moria camp, Europe’s largest asylum seeker camp.
The 4 men were charged with arson in the chimney at the camp on the Greek island, were arrested and have 3 days to prepare their case.
In addition to the arson, they faced a number of charges, including encouraging riots, property damage, illegal use of force, and attempting to injury to the police.
They were then returned to police detention after having had 3 days to prepare their case.
The most recent fire, which broke out on Samos Island on Tuesday night, was reportedly shot down by firefighters and did not affect the nearest camp.
The overcrowded Moria camp in Lesbos is that of Europe for asylum seekers.
It devastated through the chimney on 8 September, resulting in more than 12,000 migrants and refugees fleeing.
No one was injured, but most of the people who remain there remain homeless, with no health services or access to food.
Since then, many have camped on the side of the road near the empty camp.
The Moria camp is home to another 12,000 people who have now become homeless, without good enough sanitation or access to food and are now even more vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.
Two other people believed to have been worried in the chimney are detained by police in mainland Greece and have not been officially charged.
The two were 17-year-old Afghan citizens and were first taken out of Lesbos as part of a massive operation to remove unaccompanied minors from danger, a source told the AFP news agency, adding that they will be charged at a later date.
The Greek government argues that fires in Moria were intentionally started through migrants and refugees protesting their containment after the siege closed due to a Covid-19 outbreak.
The UN refugee firm has suggested greece speed up asylum procedures in Lesbos so that the thousands of migrants still sleeping on the streets after the chimney can be evacuated.
“The concept is not for other people to stay on the island of Lesbos, but for processes to speed up so that others can leave gradually and orderly” to the capital Athens or elsewhere on the continent, the head of the UN said. signature in Greece Philippe Leclerc told reporters.
Thousands of migrants and refugees have been camping along a road near the ruins of the Moria camp since it rose through a huge chimney on 8 September, the UN called on Greece to speed up the asylum procedure taking into account the situation.
Greek police minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said this week that “half” of Lesbos immigrants will be able to leave “at Christmas” and “the rest at Easter. “
In Lessbos, the teams organized another tent camp this week, which, according to European Union Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson, will eventually accommodate up to 9,000 people.
On Wednesday, Greece’s Ministry of Migration, about 1,200 of Moria’s 12,000 migrants, had been housed on the site.
“We expect 2000 to enter tonight,” said a source from the Ministry of Migration.
Of those in the camp, 35 tested positive for coronavirus.
In Brussels, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the bloc would “abolish” the existing Dublin Regulation, which makes asylum seekers a duty of the first Member State in which they set foot.
Von der Leyen promised “a new European formula for migration governance” with “common asylum and setback measures and Array . . . a strong solidarity mechanism. “
Millions of Merkels then: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to take another 1,500 homeless refugees after a chimney destroyed a migrant camp in Lesbos, but the Greek government is concerned that it may lead to imitation chimneys.
Germany agreed to receive 1,500 migrants from the Greek islands after a chimney left thousands homeless last week, Resources said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer allegedly reached an agreement, with resources that Seehofer made the proposal and Merkel agreed.
More than 12,000 people, mostly refugees from Afghanistan, Africa and Syria, were left homeless, without good enough sanitation or without food and water after a chimney devastated Moria’s migrant camp in Lesbos last Wednesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised and ridiculed her 2015 resolution to admit more than a million migrants and refugees to Germany. Merkel reportedly agreed on Wednesday to accommodate another 1,500 people stranded through Moria’s chimney on the Greek island of Lesbos.
There are about 30,000 refugees and migrants on the Greek islands in total.
However, Germany’s best-selling newspaper, Bild, says Athens fears that sending immigrants to Germany can simply push forward a chain reaction on other Greek islands.
Greek officials who accuse migrants of setting fire to the camp to inspire the move are concerned that it appears to yield to the demands of protesting refugees, migrant camps on other islands can simply copy the alleged movements of those in Lesbos.
“What we want is a forged plan that doesn’t pose any more problems, but helps people. Several features are being considered lately,” a member of the Greek government told Bild.
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