InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/03/05
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced that the destroyed Moria migrant camp on Lesbos will not be rebuilt. A new structure elsewhere on the island will reportedly replace the temporary Kara Tepe camp.
In a meeting with the mayors of the Greek islands hosting refugees, Mitsotakis said that a park is to be built on the site of the former Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, German news agency
dpa reported Thursday.
The notorious Moria camp, which hosted around 12,500 refugees and migrants at the time, burned down last September after residents of the camp allegedly set fire there.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/02/23
In the midst of the ongoing pandemic and harsh winter weather that has hit Greece over the past few days, residents of the island of Lesbos where over 7,500 asylum seekers are hosted have made an impassioned plea to help as many people as they can.
In the wake of the Medea cold front that hit Greece recently, photos and videos circulated by asylum seekers staying at the controversial Kara Tepe tent city camp on Lesbos showed large areas of the camp buried in snow.
The tents at Kara Tepe, many of them set up by the sea, do not have a floor, with people sleeping on the ground. What is more, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, 40% of the population at Kara Tepe are children.