Dozens of children on board the „Alan Kurdi“
The majority of those arriving are Tunisian citizens. The rescue ship „Alan Kurdi“ of the German aid organization Sea Eye reached the island yesterday and requested to be allowed to enter a port. There are 133 migrants on board who were brought to safety during three rescue missions, including 62 minors.
21,417 refugees have arrived in Italy by sea since the beginning of 2020. In the same period of 2019, it was 6,543. Because of the CoV pandemic, they have to go into a two-week quarantine.
Fire in refugee camp on Samos island
Less than two weeks after the Moria refugee camp was destroyed by several fires, a fire broke out in a reception center for refugees on the Greek island of Samos.
The flames have already been brought under control, the police and fire brigade announced late yesterday evening. Two or three residential containers were destroyed, there were no injuries. „There is no risk that the fire will spread,“ said a fire department spokeswoman, according to AFP.
Eleven days ago, the Moria refugee camp was destroyed by several fires. According to the authorities, this left 12,700 people homeless. By the weekend, around 9,000 of them had been housed in a makeshift tent city on Lesbos.
6,000 instead of 650 in the warehouse
Like the Moria camp, the camp on Samos is completely overcrowded – instead of the planned 650, almost 6,000 refugees live there. The hygienic conditions are therefore poor, and there are always violent conflicts and fires in the camp on Samos.
Tensions are further fueled by the fact that unlike the rest of the country, the refugee camps in Greece are still subject to a curfew due to the coronavirus pandemic.
