Four hundred children became homeless after a fire destroyed a camp on the island of Lesbos. The children will be relocated across 10 countries in the European Union, with Germany and France taking in the bulk of those affected. The terrible living conditions at the Moria camp are still persistent to Europe’s national governments for months, still, nothing changed.
Germany will shelter 150 minors from Moria camp. The European Commission will provide temporary shelter for 1,600 people. Seehofer, the German interior minister announced that it is crucial to offer “help on the ground” i.e food and housing. The states of Berlin, Thuringia, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, and many other cities are willing to take more refugees.
3,000 people demonstrated in Berlin to take more people from Moria camp.
The UK government is also undergoing pressure to provide support to the children. Lord Dubs, a former child refugee and campaigner for safe routes, wrote: “(…) The issue of safe routes for child refugees has always had cross-party support and after this horrendous fire the government cannot keep dodging the issue by insisting that children are safe in Europe. This shows beyond doubt that children are not safe (…) Failing to act would be an outrage.”
Dubs is spending efforts to protect the family reunion with an amendment to the immigration bill. There are children stuck on Lesbos in spite of being already approved for a shift to the UK to join the close family members there.
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