Moria, the sick camp of Europe

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Migrants from the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos during a demonstration to denounce their living conditions on October 1, 2019. © ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP

By: Joël Bronner

In Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, nearly 14,000 asylum seekers are crammed into a space provided for 3,000 people. It is the largest refugee camp in Europe, it is completely saturated.

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In question, the resurgence of refugees from Turkey by sea, since this summer of 2019. The camp is on the verge of conflagration, an arson attack killed a woman, in September 2019.
Moria, the sick camp of Europe, is a great report by Joël Bronner.

(Replay of October 23, 2019).

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