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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - According to the Interior Ministry, Baden-Württemberg is expected to take in around 85 people from the burned down refugee camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos.

In mid-September, the federal government agreed to accept 1,553 asylum seekers in Germany.

For Rainer Hinderer, member of the SPD state parliament, this is not enough - and above all he takes the Greens in the state government to the task: "It shows once again the double standards of the Greens," said Hinderer of the German press agency in Stuttgart.

"In Sunday speeches they generously praise the welcoming culture, but in terms of practical government responsibility the topic is not important enough to mess with hardliner and CDU interior minister Thomas Strobl."

"As far as the Ministry of the Interior is aware, a total of 291 people from the group of 1,553 recognized persons entitled to protection had entered Germany by December 10, 2020," says Strobl in response to Hinderer's application, which is available to the dpa.

35 people have been admitted to the southwest so far.

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The remaining people should enter Germany on nine flights from January 28 to the end of March, it said.

Due to the corona pandemic and other imponderables such as illnesses, changes in the schedule could occur at any time.

First, the refugees would be housed in the Lower Saxony border transit camp Friedland before they are distributed to the federal states.

"It was a sign of poverty that with the CDU in the federal government could only be achieved that only 1,553 refugees from the Greek camps were admitted," criticized Hinderer.

"The green-led state government is now going one better."

According to the usual distribution key for refugees arriving in Germany, Baden-Württemberg should have taken in more than 200 of the people from Moria, he said.

"According to common sense anyway!"

Several municipalities have agreed as so-called safe havens to accept migrants through the Seebrücke organization, including Stuttgart, Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Mehrstetten (Reutlingen district).

According to the information, the ministry is unable to say which cities, municipalities or districts in the southwest would accept how many people, due to a lack of valid data.

"Thomas Strobl would only have to google for a minute: on the website of the pier, over 30 communities from Baden-Württemberg are listed as safe havens," complained Hinderer.

"There would certainly have been more than just two or three refugees at a time."

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In an open letter to the state government, more than 160 groups, initiatives, associations and religious communities in the state, such as the Baden-Württemberg Refugee Council, appealed in December that Grün-Schwarz should support a state admission program for refugees at the European external borders and better rights to stay here should use living asylum seekers.

The situation is not only getting worse on the Greek islands.

"As a state government you have the opportunity to contribute to the end of the isolationist policy and to give those seeking protection the prospect of a decent life," the letter said.

Info about "safe havens"

Open letter