Greek riot police fired tear gas at protesting asylum seekers on Lesbos island on Saturday as tensions simmered following the catastrophic fire that ripped through Europe's largest migrant camp there this week.
Greek riot police fired tear gas at protesting asylum seekers on Lesbos island on Saturday as tensions simmered following the catastrophic fire that ripped through Europe's largest migrant camp there this week.
A fire set there earlier in the day near a police blockade had to be extinguished by the fire brigade. A man kicks a tear gas canister during minor clashes between riot police and migrants near Mytilene town, on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece.Round-the-clock efforts to find temporary shelter for over 11,000 people made homeless by the destruction of the Moria camp were still inadequate, rights groups said.
Officials have blamed migrants for the blazes, the first breaking out shortly after 35 people tested positive for coronavirus and were facing isolation measures.Many of the mostly Afghan asylum seekers have spent months in desperate conditions on the island, hoping in vain to be allowed to cross tightly shut European borders.
Asylum seekers scuffle to get some water near the new camp at Kara Tepe on Lesbos island, Greece, on 12 September.Local volunteer groups have faced difficulty in supplying asylum seekers with food and water. Refugees and migrants cook on makeshift fires near an abandoned factory in the island of Lesbos, Greece, on 11 September.The local mayor has rejected efforts to build new temporary camps as"unrealistic" and residents have tried to stop the construction of new camps by setting up roadblocks."Any thought to rebuild this sort of thing should be forgotten," Mytilene Mayor Stratis Kytelis told Antenna TV on Friday.
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