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Greece has accused migrants of deliberately burning their overcrowded camp in Lesbos last week where hundreds were forced to relocate to. Families, children, young men and pregnant women have been left wandering aimlessly since a blaze ripped through the Moria camp on the night of September 8, forcing its 12,000 occupants to sleep rough in … Read more
Some of the migrants who have been forced to relocate to new accommodation on the Greek island of Lesbos are refusing to move, after a fire destroyed their overcrowded refugee camp. Greece has resettled hundreds of migrants in a temporary new tent facility and hopes to have moved all of them this week, government officials … Read more
Desperate migrants were seen fighting over bottles of water being handed out by volunteers on the Greek island of Lesbos today, amid clashes between protesters and riot police. Greek riot police fired tear gas at protesting asylum seekers as tensions simmered following the catastrophic fire that ripped through Europe’s largest migrant camp there this week. … Read more
Greek locals have set up roadblocks to stop a new migrant camp being built on the island of Lesbos after the country’s largest shelter burned down on Tuesday. Trucks were blocking access to the smouldering ruins of the Moria camp on Thursday to prevent a clean-up operation that would make way for new tents. ‘Now … Read more
Thousands of migrants slept rough on the Greek island of Lesbos last night after a blaze razed their makeshift camp to the ground, sending them fleeing but with nowhere to go. Families slept on roadsides and in supermarket parking lots and fields across the island, which was borne the brunt of the European migrant crisis … Read more
A ship carrying 600 asylum seekers has departed from Lesbos to a closed camp in northern Greece amid the coronavirus crisis. The migrants arrived at the port of Mytilene in the Greek island of Lesbos, ahead of their departure with the ship, named ‘Aqua Blue’. Clashes broke out overnight on Greece’s border with Turkey after … Read more
Thousands of protesters today marched through the streets of the Greek island of Lesbos in a rally to demand the government to halt new migrant camps, a day after violent clashes left more than 60 injured. Business owners and unions called for a general strike on the island to continue, with shops shuttered for the second … Read more
Residents have fought riot police with wooden sticks and set up flaming barricades on the roads in an attempt to halt the construction of new migrant detention centres on two Greek islands. At least 500 people on Lesbos and Chios – including regional governor Kostas Moutzouris and West Lesbos mayor Taxiarchis Verros – clashed with … Read more