(AFP) Greece on Monday accused migrants of deliberately burning their overcrowded camp last week on Lesbos island, where hundreds reluctantly moved to a new temporary site with “no showers or mattresses.”
Families, children, young men and pregnant women have been left wandering aimlessly since a blaze ripped through the Moria camp on the night of September 8.
The fire has forced its 12,000 former occupants to sleep rough in abandoned buildings, on roadsides and even rooftops.
“The camp was burned by refugees and migrants who wanted to blackmail the government in order to be rapidly transferred from the island (to the continent),” Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters in Athens.
