Police operation at Kara Tepe ‘a humanitarian duty’, Chrisochoidis says
1,000 asylum-seekers had been taken off the streets, where they had been living since the fires in Moria left them without shelter, and had moved into the new camp at Kara Tepe since Thursday morning. APE-MPE, VAGGELIS PAPANTONIS
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Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis on Thursday said that the police operation underway since early morning to lead thousands of migrants and refugees to the new facility at Kara Tepe, near the town of Mytilene, was a “humanitarian duty” and marked the passage from “insecurity to health safety and from disorder to order.”
He said that 1,000 asylum-seekers had been taken off the streets, where they had been living since the fires in Moria left them without shelter, and had moved into the new camp at Kara Tepe since Thursday morning.
Migration ministry sources, meanwhile, said that another 21 newcomers to the camp had so far been found to be infected with the novel coronavirus.
A total of 450 refugees and migrants displaced from the burnt camp in Moria were on Thursday led by police officers to the new facility set up at Kara Tepe. The transfer operation began at 08:00 and was still in progresss. Two hundred of the newcomers have undergone a medical examination and a blood test for COVID-19.
At the same time a large number of refugees and migrants that were camped out on the sides of the road are voluntarily packing up and moving towards the new facility at Kara Tepe.
Source: ANA-MPA