Several thousand people demonstrated on Sunday, September 20 in Berlin and other German cities to call on the European Union to take care of asylum seekers left homeless after the fire devastating the Moria camp on the island Greek from Lesbos.
In Berlin, the demonstrators were joined by the aunt of Alan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian boy who became a tragic symbol of the refugee crisis in 2015. The photographs of his body washed up on a beach in Turkey had caused a shock and awareness of refugees from the war in Syria.
"We cannot close our eyes"
"I have decided to speak up and speak out on behalf of those who cannot do it on their own. If I cannot save my own family, let us save the others," said Tima Kurdi, calling on the citizens write to politicians asking them to act.
"We cannot close our eyes and turn our backs on them," she added.
Sonya Bobrik, activist of the Seebruecke organization, assures her that there is "enough room in Germany" to accommodate more than the 1,500 refugees currently in Greece that Berlin has promised to take care of.
In Düsseldorf waren ca.
250 Protestierende anwesend pic.twitter.com/VWkMM5wPcs
- Seebrücke Düsseldorf (@SeebrueckeD) September 20, 2020
Police say 5,000 people took part in the Berlin protest.
Other demonstrations took place in Cologne, Munich and Leipzig.
Some 12,700 people were left homeless after the fire that destroyed Moria camp last week.
Among these asylum seekers, 9,000 have already joined a new temporary camp hastily built by the authorities.
With AFP
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