(BBC) Three migrants have been cleared on appeal of setting fire to the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos during the Covid pandemic.
The juvenile court of Mytilene found the defendants not guilty, ruling that their involvement in the blaze in September 2020 had not been proven. They had previously been sentenced to ten years [in] prison.
Much of Moria, Greece’s largest and heavily overcrowded refugee camp, was destroyed in the blaze and around 13,000 people were left without shelter.
The fires broke out as tensions soared over restrictions imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19.
In the aftermath of the fires, six Afghan migrants were arrested.
