The authorities have started work to set up hundreds of tents in a temporary camp for migrants, three days after the fire that destroyed that of Moria on Lesbos.
The inhabitants of the Greek island are outraged at the situation.
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A new temporary camp begins to be installed, three kilometers from the port of Mytilene, three days after the fire that ravaged the migrant camp of Moria, on the island of Lesbos, Greece.
In the meantime, more than 12,000 people are desperately waiting for a solution in extremely precarious conditions.
The migrants would like to leave the island and the inhabitants also want them to leave, except that the police are preventing them.
"We must end this situation now"
Thousands of refugees, some signs in hand, chanted "freedom", or even "Germany", Germany, to demand their departure from the island of Lesbos on Friday.
A demonstration caused by the installation of the new temporary camp.
Throughout the afternoon, helicopters transported hundreds of tents near an ancient field, surrounded by barbed wire.
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This new camp is also creating anger among the inhabitants.
For Maria, it only displaces the problem and will continue to hurt the economy.
"We must put an end to this situation now. It makes us lose our jobs in bars, we no longer have customers. It has been going on for five years. They just have to build elsewhere," he considers. -she.
After this temporary situation, the government plans to build new closed camps.
Meanwhile, European solidarity continues to develop: ten countries will welcome the 400 unaccompanied minors evacuated just after the fire.