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Police Fire Tear Gas At Refugees Protesting To Leave Greek Island
NPR ^ | September 12, 2020ยท7:18 PM ET | Matthew S. Schwartz

Posted on 09/12/2020 10:04:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Just days after fire tore through the Moria refugee camp in the Greek island of Lesbos and displaced more than 12,000 people, some of those same people were tear-gassed by police while protesting the construction of a replacement camp.

Protesters say they want to leave the island altogether.

Hundreds of refugees gathered Saturday, some chanting "freedom" and carrying signs, while bulldozers cleared debris in preparation for a new tent settlement, Reuters reported. Police fired tear gas after some protesters tried to march to Mytilene, the island's main city.

The new Lesbos camp, set up at an army firing range, will host about 3,000 people, according to local media. Families and members of "vulnerable groups" will get priority, government officials said. It's not clear what will happen to the other 9,000 or so refugees.

After the fires, Greek officials relocated more than 400 unaccompanied children to mainland Greece, according to CNN. But authorities have refused mass transfer off the island, despite the pleas of refugees. Officials promised to provide safe and sanitary conditions at the new tent encampment.

The Moria camp was built to house 3,000 people but at least four times as many people have been living there.

Complicating the resettlement are fears of the coronavirus. Authorities have lost track of 35 camp residents who had tested positive for the virus, Reuters reported. And the displaced refugees have had no access to basic sanitation in the days since the Moria camp burned.

"This is a health bomb," Matina Pagoni, president of Athens and Piraeus hospital doctors' union, told Skai television, according to the wire service. "These people haven't even had access to water all these days, they cannot even wash their hands."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: barbarians; barbariansinvasion; invaders; invasion

1 posted on 09/12/2020 10:04:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

freedom eh

back to your home country it is


2 posted on 09/12/2020 10:10:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lesbos.... is this some new LBGTQ group?


3 posted on 09/12/2020 10:13:40 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: LastDayz

Lesbos.... is this some new LBGTQ group?


Nope. It’s a notorious old one.


4 posted on 09/12/2020 10:15:15 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: BenLurkin

The party is over. It’s time for them to go back home.


5 posted on 09/12/2020 10:32:13 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Spartans would know how to deal with them.


6 posted on 09/12/2020 10:33:29 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BenLurkin

2015 - start of Muslim hijrah from Syria and other Muslim states into the EU.


7 posted on 09/12/2020 11:20:24 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: BenLurkin
Just days after fire tore through the Moria refugee camp in the Greek island of Lesbos

Fiery but mostly peaceful protests?

8 posted on 09/12/2020 11:43:07 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

We had mice in our house so we set up a little place for them. We put out food and water and toys to play with. Pretty soon we had more mice, both from breeding and more from outside. They were not happy confined and wanted the whole house.

Se we locked the doors. Gassed the whole house and left a while. Then came back in to clean up the mess.


9 posted on 09/13/2020 4:35:58 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: BenLurkin

I read about this before, the Afghani “refugees” set fire to the buildings they were living in to “protest” not being allowed to just flood into Europe. They should be loaded onto ships and taken directly back to Afghanistan.


10 posted on 09/13/2020 5:01:30 AM PDT by euram
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To: BenLurkin

Welcome to your concentration camp, comrades.


11 posted on 09/13/2020 7:41:42 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: BenLurkin

Ship them all back home. No exceptions.


12 posted on 09/13/2020 8:07:00 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
By 'refugees' is meant 'illegal invaders'.

13 posted on 09/13/2020 10:40:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MacNaughton
One of George Soros' groups buys the boats so these people can leave the crap "results" of their dysfunctional cultures.

These people break into countries with superior cultures, then resent the people who have a better culture, and demand the right to install the flaws of their silly dysfunctional cultures so they can create a new hellhole...

We don't need to be a part of this insanity....

Send them back to where they came from, arrest the people making boats available to them, then sue George Soros for the damages.

14 posted on 09/13/2020 1:17:40 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden will wear looting "on his back"...because it's being done by the left.- Bill Maher)
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To: BenLurkin

From what I read, almost all want to go to Germany fo the benefits. Try and send them to Portugal or Romania and they’ll scoot across those borders and head for Deutchland.

The Germans are uneasy. :-)


15 posted on 09/13/2020 7:27:46 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: Oatka
Wonder if the Deutsch have really changed their minds since 2015?


16 posted on 09/13/2020 9:41:05 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: MacNaughton

Pictures of Useful Idiots in their natural habitat.


17 posted on 09/14/2020 8:30:18 AM PDT by Oatka
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