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Greek police moving refugees to ‘second Moria’ in wake of blaze that gutted the first
Migrants carry their belongings as they flee a road leading from Moria to the capital of Mytilene, on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece

GREEK police began moving refugees displaced by the fire at the notorious Moria camp to a new location on Lesbos today.

A stretch of motorway on which thousands of asylum-seekers have been sleeping rough for over a week was divided into sections and people were tested for Covid-19 in batches before transfer.

Sonia Nandzik, co-founder of citizen journalist project Refocus Media Labs, told the Morning Star that people did not wish to move to “a new Moria.”

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