Some say they were offering adults sex in exchange for a spot in a tent. New fires broke out on Wednesday and Thursday. Nasir is admitted to the Safe Zone. But it became nearly impossible to bridge the physical distance—and the emotional distance—between our clients and us. MORE: Inside Lesbos' Moria camp, home to thousands of trapped refugees and migrants The camp has been criticized for years by leaders and humanitarians for … They fear that Germany could once again send out the message that it welcomes refugees. That all disappears in the smoke of the campfires. On Oct. 30, Boris Pistorius, the interior minister of the German state of Lower Saxony, boards a plane for Athens before continuing on to Lesbos. The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 12/2021 (March 20, 2021) of DER SPIEGEL. He begins writing a statement by hand, which he faxes to his office in the Bundestag. And refugees are still coming into the country despite the EU’s deal with Turkey. Members of the Bundestag usually vote in line with their party’s parliamentary group. Moria is the most populated refugee camp. He has photos of his family saved on his mobile phone. His asylum application has been processed and he is allowed to stay, though only because it was determined that he could not be deported. One of the boys from the café was included. An eight-year-old tried to hang himself. Now we are heading toward Easter. Their youngest sister died in the flames. The fact that these children were even allowed to enter the country is the result of months of political wrangling involving hundreds of participants. They have developed theories, for example that Europe only wants the youngest ones, though they now know that many countries are also taking minors over the age of 14. A plan begins taking shape on the sidelines of the meetings, an approach that is often turned to in politics when a majority for the desired solution is out of reach. After it burned down, most refugees moved to … Built in 2015 for 3,000 people but now home to 20,000, it is the largest refugee camp in Europe. The new, temporary camp is at the seaside near Kara Tepe. Soleiman has been waiting since April 2020 for the appointment necessary to determine his residency status in Germany. Claas Morgenstern, the UNHCR representative, once pulled refugees from boats as a helper on the beach. Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. German Interior Minister Seehofer says he told the chancellor as much in a meeting, to which she responded: "Do you even have two female staff members in your ministry?" Mohammad says he’s never seen anything like it. She asks: "What are you up to? He ran out and found himself surrounded by hundreds of others who were screaming and crying and trying to make their way to the city. How is it possible to justify a situation in which conditions for some are so terrible, but not for others? They search in the housing accommodations in the Safe Zone, under trees, tarps and by the road in the jungle. At the end of my three-week involvement as a medical volunteer providing medical relief work in Moria refugee camp through the Dutch Boat Refugee Foundation, I felt the need to make an assessment of the situation through the lens of the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health … He is living in a home near Hamburg, a project run by the association Internationaler Bund. Refugee women learning English in the camp's school. In summer, the Interior Ministry had sent two female staff members to Moria to take a closer look at the situation there. There is no heating in the camp. They were quarantined and tested for COVID-19, according to officials. It isn't easy to speak with him about his past. Soleiman, an 11-year-old from Iran, is wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt. Two children try to hurt themselves. It has been overwhelmed by huge numbers of refugees for years. Her son fell and cracked his skull. They are forced to stay behind, but will travel at a later point. Journalists aren't allowed into the new camp and aid organization staff have been told not to post any photos or videos from inside. In Moria, Nasir dreams of a life as a professional boxer. "They called my name for Germany," he says. All of them were interviewed for the EU program, and every few days or weeks, a worker from an aid organization shows up to read out a list of names. Greek television is broadcasting live. Pressure is growing to finally take action. Together with his counterparts in the states of Thuringia and Berlin, he writes a letter to Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and requests that Berlin immediately launch a program to bring unaccompanied minors from the camps to Germany. His father gave him a bicycle for his 14th birthday, and for his 15th birthday, he gave him money so he could set off for Europe. The German government said it would take 408 families consisting of 1,553 people who were living in the refugee settlement located on the island of Lesbos. Eight head for Berlin, four to Baden-Württemberg, one to Bavaria, six to Hesse, eight to Hamburg, three to Schleswig-Holstein, one to Saarland, two to North Rhine-Westphalia, two to Saxony Anhalt and 12 stay in Lower Saxony. Or in a room of the European Council building in Brussels, where, away from the meetings, like-minded people came together and made plans that ultimately were not approved. Mohammad is standing to the right. They flee an unimaginable situation, only to find a hopeless alternative. The Moria Refugee Camp was built as a temporary shelter for 3,000. Six children are denied their "fit to fly” certificates after being diagnosed with COVID-19 or scabies. MORE: Largest refugee camp in Europe gutted by fire, MORE: Inside Lesbos' Moria camp, home to thousands of trapped refugees and migrants. He is just one of a long list of visitors to the camp since its opening, some prominent, others less so. He goes to the UNHCR tent, where he has already been told that the official part of the camp is full. Moria is actually the name of a nearby village but became synonymous with the refugee camp itself and sadly with the plight of the people living there. On July 24, Germany begins accepting sick children with their families – 83 passengers on the first flight. On June 17, eight minors are flying to Ireland. DER SPIEGEL has spent months documenting the fates of four unaccompanied minors from the Moria camp on Lesbos. His hands shoved deep into his pockets, he speaks hesitantly. Moria, the EU's largest refugee camp, held more than 12,000 people. In many respects, she says, the new camp is worse than the old one. Around the same time in Moria, Rahela’s brother Nasir falls ill in his barracks in the jungle. Initially built for 2,200 people, the camp has hosted almost ten times the amount of people it … Camera crews are waiting just beyond the entrance when Asselborn stops to address them: "We’ve been talking since Christmas about how to get these young people, who are alone, out of this hole. Roughly 12,500 refugees were living in the camp that was built to hold about 2,750, according to The Associated Press. Rahela with her husband and children: Her brother Nasir has made it to Germany. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. He has no contact to his parents. Not much has been officially documented about the events that took place on the night of September 8-9. The German ambassador is waiting on the tarmac and Prime Minister Mitsotakis is also there, holding bags that he hands to the children. Psychologists in the camp have reported that some children are pulling out their hair or cutting their arms with razor blades, knives or scissors. 15 February 2020. For the refugees living in Moria camp, daily life has gotten worse since the fire. SPIEGEL+ kann nur auf einem Gerät zur selben Zeit genutzt werden. Mohammad, 16, arrived alone in Moria and looked for a place to sleep outdoors in the jungle. "The discussion will focus on who you are and what happened to you in Afghanistan to force you to flee," the guardian says. "The Island of the Damned,” "Unfathomable Conditions” and "Moria Is a Disgrace” are but a sampling of the headlines. The only thing they all seem to agree on is that the EU’s external borders need to be protected. Every child has to be interviewed, each child has to be checked to see if he or she is too old to meet the criteria for Germany or if he or she arrived after March 1, 2020, because these children are not qualified for the program. It's December and Elena Moustaka climbs up the hill of the jungle. A CDU parliamentarian will go on to demand that German officials be allowed to choose who is allowed to come. Jüsten, who acts as a kind of chief lobbyist for the Catholic Church in Berlin, says the minister should help the children. His parents, he says, have died. He has also been to the doctor and is now wearing a retainer. The Cypriot national came to Lesbos in 2015, when there were still more trees than tents in the grove. Some of those who haven't yet been chosen are growing desperate. The Luxembourg politician is the EU’s longest-serving foreign minister and he has already visited Moria twice. Mohammad ran to the office, and now he is sitting inside, surrounded by the buzzing of the cicadas, and says: "They are taking me to Mytilene. She's been keeping close track of the conditions for the children in the camp this winter. It could even start with Horst Seehofer, the German interior minister, who, after a church service in Berlin, met someone who said he should really be doing something to help the children. At night, the lights stay on in a number of the rooms, and many of them want to sleep in their daytime clothes, because they aren't familiar with pajamas. The others are Said, Mustafa, Zaimillah and Mahdi – all of them just short of their 18th birthdays. They say they have a departure ritual: On the evening before someone leaves, they form two lines at the door of their container. On March 3, CDU member of parliament Thomas Rachel is sitting in his apartment. Yes, he allows, a few children were saved, but doing so dodges the question as to what should be done with the rest, to avoid further violating their human dignity in violation of EU law. They reached Turkey before then arriving in Lesbos in August 2019. The stories the children tell, of course, frequently cannot be verified - even their ages and origins are sometimes obscured. They play volleyball and football. He has been brought here after spending three months in Mytilene, and his wait continues. Five of them have scabies, which the authorities in Athens failed to diagnose, and most have old injuries and scars. Nasir has bought himself a punching bag and boxing gloves. And they’re now living in containers instead of tents. On the night of the fire, he was woken up in the Safe Zone by yelling. They sleep in … Our reporting took us to Moria and Athens in Greece, to Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, and to the European Council, the powerful Brussels body that represents the leaders of the 27 European Union member states. You have really made it a long way.". In January, it snows and the laundry turns white, says an aid worker. For example, in Moria Camp on the island of Lesvos there is only one water tap for every 1,300 refugees. He says a boy ran up to him: "Mohammad, they said your name! Moria refugee camp, the largest in Europe, went up in flames earlier this month. In July 2019, the new government led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis entered office partly on the strength of a promise that Greece would demand more assistance from the European Union in dealing with refugees. "They will pick me up at 4 p.m. in two days.” Nasir has the choice of leaving without Rahela or staying with her in Moria. Now, he climbs up the slope, where he sees tents made of garbage bags with children running around, in a "pitiful state.” While on the hill, Pistorius tells a journalist with the German public broadcaster NDR who is traveling with him that the children need to be saved. The Moria Refugee Camp lies north-east of Mytilene, the capital of Lesbos. The camp has long since become a conundrum, a place that looks different from every angle. He pays close attention to every formulation that night, as someone in attendance would later report. He runs to her. Several countries don’t want to take anyone in at all. After two weeks, the children are split up. The International Organization for Migration takes them to Athens, to the Hotel Alma, where psychologists and social workers are waiting for them and where they are to be tested for the coronavirus and given examinations. "I’m sick. "And can I then ask if my family is coming?" It could start in Iran, where a boy lived who left his brother work of a debt smuggler so he could get to Europe. The pope was here, as were the EU commissioner for home affairs, the French interior minister and actress Angelina Jolie. O n the Greek island of Lesbos is the Moria refugee camp, constructed for 3,100 people but now with a population of more than 20,000 men, women and children. The rest of the refugees would soon move into a new camp. A group of mission co-workers from the Middle East and Europe attending a meeting in Lesvos did an external visit to learn about the camp. Camp Moria: Children standing in line waiting for drinks. Behind the scenes, he also campaigns for a European approach. Every country has different criteria. The United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, reports that there are 12,600 people in Moria in October 2019 – the camp is completely overcrowded. The refugee camp got its not from the Moria … He wears red trousers, a red coat and a gray beard. On April 14, 2020, a bus pulls up to the gate of the camp to pick up the children Germany wants to take in. In the morning, a few boys are sitting on plastic chairs beneath the awning of a small café across from the camp. The next night, three flights containing 406 unaccompanied minors would fly from Moria to the Greek mainland, including Mahdi. Four of them are girls. He speaks regularly with his family, his parents and eight siblings, who are still in Turkey.
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