Days after fire destroyed the overcrowded camp, six inmates were charged with arson. Greece is now opening 'prison-like' secure camps in the Aegean islands as part of a growing tendency to criminalise refugees About 11pm on the night of 8 September 2020, residents of the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos were roused from sleep by the smell of smoke and the sound of urgent voices. Sedique, a 16-year-old from Afghanistan, remembers her neighbours bellowing: "Run, run, run!" She poke...
'A disaster waiting to happen': who was really responsible for the fire at Moria refugee camp?
The Guardian - 21 Apr 2022 07:00
Days after fire destroyed the overcrowded camp, six inmates were charged with arson. Greece is now opening 'prison-like' secure camps in the Aegean islands as part of a growing tendency to criminalise refugees About 11pm on the night of 8 September 2020, residents of the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos were roused from sleep by the smell of smoke and the sound of urgent voices. Sedique, a 16-year-old from Afghanistan, remembers her neighbours bellowing: "Run, run, run!" She poke...
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