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Greece: Arson by migrants suspected in fire that destroyed Europe’s largest Muslim migrant camp

Sep 13, 2020 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams 27 Comments

Some 12,500 people were said to be living at the camp, which has been under COVID-19 lockdown.

The Greek government declared a state of emergency, and Greek minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos called the situation in Lesbos an “unprecedented humanitarian crisis.” That it is. This crisis has been aided by Turkey, which has been encouraging illegal mass migration into Greece. Turkey has been helping illegal Muslim migrants to get into Greece, and fanning their hopes of using Greece as a means to enter into the wealthier areas of the European Union. Lesbos “has been a magnet for men, women and children moving westward from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and ever more increasingly western Africa,” all hoping to illegally enter the EU.

“Echoing other government officials who had alluded to arson, Koumoutsakos said it appeared the blaze broke out ‘as the result of the discontent’ among camp residents over lockdown measures being prolonged following a positive virus test for a Somali asylum seeker.”

“Thousands need aid after fire destroys Europe’s largest refugee camp,” by Helena Smith, Guardian, September 9, 2020:

Thousands of people urgently require emergency shelter and aid after a fire destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos.

As the Athens government declared a state of emergency and a delegation of officials rushed to the north-eastern Aegean island, the sheer scale of devastation wrought by the overnight blaze became increasingly evident.

In the mangled wreckage of gutted facilities, incinerated tents and blackened containers, Moria was no more. The camp whose overcrowded and unsanitary conditions had spawned global outrage since its inception in 2015 had been erased.

“At this moment the reception centre has been completely destroyed,” Greece’s alternate migration minister, Giorgos Koumoutsakos, told reporters, saying it was miraculous there had been no deaths or injuries. “As a result, thousands of people are homeless.”

Calling the situation an “unprecedented humanitarian crisis”, the politician said the coronavirus pandemic had created “exceptionally demanding” circumstances on the island, long at the forefront of refugees fleeing war-stricken homelands for the west. Eyewitnesses reported terrified and traumatised residents fleeing the hilltop facility through thick, acrid smoke laced with the stench of burning plastic.

At least three dozen people living in the camp had been diagnosed with Covid-19 before the fire erupted. Local islanders’ fears that the virus could spread were exacerbated when authorities admitted that by late afternoon on Wednesday they had only managed to locate eight of them.

Echoing other government officials who had alluded to arson, Koumoutsakos said it appeared the blaze broke out “as the result of the discontent” among camp residents over lockdown measures being prolonged following a positive virus test for a Somali asylum seeker.

Firefighters who rushed to the scene as flames whipped by gale force winds enveloped the camp spoke of the fire bursting into life in at least three places, suggesting it had been deliberately lit…..

 

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  1. Dude says

    Sep 13, 2020 at 11:19 am

    Surprise surprise!

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    • JamesC, says

      Sep 13, 2020 at 6:34 pm

      Muslamic Civilisation and the Perfect Religion proving their undeniable superiority to the unenlightened barbarism of the kaffir cockroaches.

      Reply
    • Check Burry says

      Sep 14, 2020 at 6:13 am

      Yes please lets provide the aid, starting with a banana boat back home, with apologies to the bananas.

      Reply
  2. Martin says

    Sep 13, 2020 at 12:07 pm

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    • Martin says

      Sep 13, 2020 at 12:14 pm

      GERMANY Protest in Berlin to demand evacuation of Moria’s refugees after fire devastated camp

      Thousands of protesters gather in Berlin, Germany, to demand the German government take in refugees that have been displaced by the fire that devastated Moria, Greece’s largest refugee camp.

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      • Check Burry says

        Sep 14, 2020 at 6:14 am

        Nuts

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    • Martin says

      Sep 13, 2020 at 12:22 pm

      New camp on Lesbos is set up after Moria fire

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      • gravenimage says

        Sep 13, 2020 at 8:56 pm

        Thanks for those links, Martin.

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    • Martin says

      Sep 14, 2020 at 1:35 pm

      Deutsche Pravda – Greece opens new camp for Moria migrants but thousands refuse to enter

      Greece has opened a 3,000-capacity tent camp for the migrants made homeless by the Moria fire — but amid unrest over conditions only a few hundred have entered so far. Athens says they will all be housed within a week.

      Greece said Sunday it hoped thousands of asylum seekers left homeless by fires at Europe’s largest migrant camp on the island of Lesbos could be rehoused within a week.

      The announcement came as a new so-called tent city at Kara Tepe opened to the first people.

      At least 300 people were expected to move into the 3,000-capacity camp by the end of the day on Sunday.

      Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi told reporters Sunday that: “In five days the operation will be concluded. Everybody will be inside the new camp.”

      But a large number of migrants, who were residents of the destroyed Moria camp, have refused to enter the new facility, demanding asylum to other EU countries or better living conditions.

      https://www.dw.com/en/greece-opens-new-camp-for-moria-migrants-but-thousands-refuse-to-enter/a-54910921

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      • Martin says

        Sep 14, 2020 at 1:37 pm

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      • Martin says

        Sep 14, 2020 at 1:52 pm

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  3. Boycott Turkey says

    Sep 13, 2020 at 12:22 pm

    I hope no Koran’s where harmed in this awful fire

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    • gravenimage says

      Sep 13, 2020 at 8:57 pm

      OK, that is hilarious!

      Reply
  4. Chrissie01 says

    Sep 13, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    I saw a picture with a fellow that took a selfie of his arrogant grin with a V-sign for victory in front of a burning tent. I don’t know to insert it, but I would have loved to show it to you all. No questions necessary after looking at that. Germany will be graced with several very capable arsonists, which is called cultural enrichment.

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    • gravenimage says

      Sep 13, 2020 at 9:12 pm

      Crazy.

      Reply
    • Check Burry says

      Sep 14, 2020 at 6:15 am

      They might even have a large knife, you know to forage for kindling.

      Reply
  5. SAFI says

    Sep 13, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    “suspected”? LOL I’m pretty sure that’s a well established fact by now… if they greek govt hasn’t already officially admitted it, I “suspect” the only reason for that is they don’t want it to play into the hands of the “far-right islamophobes”

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  6. Lenny Leaps In says

    Sep 13, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    Rich countries of the West always act as a magnet to poor people. They all want a better life (this is human nature). There are tens of millions of Muslims and Africans in Europe. The fact that in one recent year Angela Merkel (the German Chancellor) allowed 1.1 million Muslims (99% were youngish men of fighting age) from Syria into Germany tells all asylum seekers that Europe is for everyone. Just get up and get there. And when you are there you get $$, free housing, immigration help, legal aid, medical. Also hundreds of thousands of your ethnic group (and bleeding hearts) are there to help you. Where would you rather live: in Afghanistan with the poverty and murderous Taliban? In Syria with war and bombed out cities? In Sudan with war and grinding poverty? Or in London, French Riviera, Rome, Brussels, Amsterdam or Stockholm? .

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    • gravenimage says

      Sep 13, 2020 at 9:20 pm

      Many Muslims are not in search of a better life–except in the sense of sponging off Infidels and wanting to impose brutal Shari’ah law on us.

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      • Check Burry says

        Sep 14, 2020 at 6:18 am

        Yes, no long queues at the Job centre eh, no jobs either as thousands already lost, so massive strain on welfare.

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        • gravenimage says

          Sep 14, 2020 at 10:56 pm

          Muslims seldom want to work in the best economic times.

    • Autar KRISHEN Gurtoo says

      Sep 15, 2020 at 12:49 am

      Sory, you got it all wrong. This is invasion in the name of ALLAH,under their often stated Agenda of ISLAMIZATION of world, under instructions of MOO HAM HEAD thru their sex manual / holy book QURAN. Deal wih it realistically, with strong hard relentless pushback, & STAT.

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  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 13, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    Greece: Arson by migrants suspected in fire that destroyed Europe’s largest Muslim migrant camp
    ……………..

    No real surprise here. Muslims are trying to get immediately released into the Infidel population–and don’t even care if they kill other Mohammedans on the way.

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    • Jaydam says

      Sep 13, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      Did’nt the immigrants in Calais deliberately burn down the refugee camp a few years ago,.? and it back fired on them, ( no pun intended ) when the french police closed the camp down and sent them on their way.

      I seem to remember the immigrants were not pleased at all about this, as they were probably expecting free housing, and other little benefits, lolol.

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      • gravenimage says

        Sep 13, 2020 at 9:21 pm

        Yep. They were also probably expecting free transport to England.

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    • Autar KRISHEN Gurtoo says

      Sep 15, 2020 at 1:17 am

      Autar KRISHEN Gurtoo says

      Sep 15, 2020 at 12:49 am

      Sorry, you got it all wrong. This is invasion in the name of ALLAH,under their often stated Agenda of ISLAMIZATION of world, under instructions of MOO HAM HEAD thru their sex manual / holy book QURAN. Deal wih it realistically, with strong hard relentless pushback, & STAT.

      Reply
  8. nicu says

    Sep 14, 2020 at 1:35 am

    Here we go again : if they don’t like food or the new houses they get in germany they will burn them down , again and get better ones and they know that ! Blackmailed by Criminals !

    Reply

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