A major fire that swept through Greece’s largest refugee camp has left more than 12,000 migrants in emergency need of shelter on the island of Lesbos.
Migrants and asylum-seekers are increasingly crossing a treacherous part of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago.“What’s happening in Moria is a humanitarian catastrophe,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted. “In cooperation with the EU Commission and other EU member states willing to help we need to sort out as quickly as possible how we can support Greece.
European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas, who is responsible for migration matters, tweeted that he had been in touch with Mitsotakis and “assured him that the European Commission is ready to assist Greece immediately at all levels at this difficult time.” EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said she had “already agreed to finance the immediate transfer and accommodation on the mainland of the remaining 400 unaccompanied children and teenagers” who had been living in the camp. “The safety and shelter of all people in Moria is the priority,” Johansson tweeted.Get breaking news, investigations, analysis and more signature journalism from the Los Angeles Times in your inbox.
Regional fire chief Konstantinos Theofilopoulos told state-run ERT television that the fire broke out at more than three places in quick succession, and that firefighters were hampered by protesting residents from battling the flames. The main blaze was out by Wednesday morning, but the fire chief said some containers still had small slow-burning fires inside.Before dawn, riot police set up cordons along a highway near the camp to restrict the movements of migrants.
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