In Greece, progressive criminalization of migrants and the offense of solidarity
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This photograph taken on March 30, 2021 shows an aerial view of the Kara Tepe or Mavrovouni refugee camp in Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos.
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By: Joël Bronner Follow
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In Greece, Lesbos has become a symbol of migratory flows.
After the arrival of more than a million asylum seekers bound for Europe in 2015 and 2016, this island in the Aegean Sea, neighbor to Turkey, sheltered in particular Moria, long the largest camp of the continent.
Destroyed by a fire in September 2020, Moria has since been replaced by a more closed and more supervised “
temporary
” structure, where some 2,200 people now live together.
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As is already the case on the island of Samos, the Greek authorities now say they want to build on Lesbos, by the end of 2022, a new camp that looks like a detention center.
“
In Greece, progressive criminalization of migrants and the offense of solidarity
”, a Grand Reportage à Lesvos et Athens, by Joël Bronner.
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