Over 12,000 Lesbos migrants sleep on streets after huge fire destroys camp
Greece’s migration ministry says it will try to ensure vulnerable groups and families have shelter, but it expects stiff resistance from locals
10 September 2020 - 10:44
Lesbos — Thousands of migrants slept rough on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday after a blaze razed their makeshift camp to the ground, sending them fleeing but with nowhere to go.
Families slept on roadsides and in supermarket parking lots and fields across the island, which was at the forefront of the European migrant crisis in 2015-2016...
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