(17 Sep 2020) A large queue has formed outside a new camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, where police are moving hundreds of migrants and refugees, who were left homeless after a fire destroyed their previous camp.
Wearing masks and white coveralls, police escorted migrants camped out on a roadside to the new army-built camp in the island’s Kara Tepe area.
No violence was reported as the operation began.
The new camp consists of large family tents erected in a field by the sea.
By Wednesday night, it had a capacity of around 8,000 people, according to the UN refugee agency, but only around 1,100 mostly vulnerable people had entered.
New arrivals are being tested for the coronavirus and registered before being assigned a tent.
The notoriously squalid Moria camp burned down last week, leaving more than 12,000 people in need of emergency shelter.
Moria had a capacity of just over 2,700 people, but more than 12,500 people had been living in and around it when it burned down.
The camp and its squalid conditions were held up by critics as a symbol of Europe’s failed migration policies
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