Authors: Elena Becatoros and Raphael Kominis | U.S. News | 18 September 2018
MORIA, Greece (AP) — Some 2,000 asylum-seekers will be moved out of a severely overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos this month, a Greek official said Tuesday as charities slammed conditions at the camp, which has raw sewage running out of its main entrance.
Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said those being moved out of the Moria camp, which houses 9,000 people in a facility built for 3,100, will be sent to the mainland so their asylum claims can be examined.
"The situation in Moria is indeed difficult, it is indeed at the limit," Tzanakopoulos said.
Regional governor Christina Kalogirou had threatened to shut down the facility unless the Greek government improves conditions at Moria.
Camp resident Ali Sajjad Faizy, a 19-year-old from Afghanistan, said conditions at Moria have steadily worsened and anyone who wants food has to stand in line for many hours.
"It's completely full," he said. Read more>>>