(AFP) Six young Afghan men including two minors will face a prosecutor on Greece’s Lesbos island Wednesday on suspicion of setting fires that destroyed Europe’s largest migrant camp last week.
The suspects, aged 20 and below, are to be arraigned after midday, local officials said.
Two of them, aged 17, had initially been taken off the island in a mass operation to put unaccompanied minors out of harm’s way, state agency ANA reported.
Greek officials had insisted from the start that the fires that destroyed the Moria camp, leaving over 12,000 people homeless, were the result of arson.
Earlier Wednesday, 13 migrants were detained on the island of Samos after a fire broke out near the local camp that houses over 4,700 people.
