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Refugee: Incidents in Lesvos – Chios mayor to file a lawsuit against Mouzalas (vid)

There are more than 54,000 refugees and immigrants in Greece

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Incidents broke out at Morias hotspot in Lesvos with the stranded refugees and immigrants asking to let them leave the hotspot, while the process of examining their asylum applications is extremely slow leading to great tension.

On Monday, dozens of angry people who have been held for more than 25 days and are neither allowed to walk freely on the island nor leave it, took over the asylum service and set fire to rubbish bins, protesting against the situation and asking to be allowed to leave Lesvos.

Based on the data released by the Coordinating Centre for the Management of Migration, there are more than 54,000 refugees and immigrants in Greece, while refugee flow to Greece has been decreased significantly.

 

The mayor of the Greek island of Chios, Manolis Vournous, threatened that he will file a lawsuit against Yannis Mouzalas and those who are responsible for the situation created in the island. He also said that despite the fact the Municipality has informed the ministry of migration for a number of issues relating to both the conditions of refugees’ staying and operational issues of the center, no one has responded yet, while officials of the ministry do not even answer to the phone.

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Moreover, Hollywood start and Special Envoy of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie speaking at the BBC Radio Theatre in London, she condemned once more global response to the refugee crisis warning that if international community fails to address the refugee issue, chaos will prevail.

“We have faced the worst in humanity on a global scale and we have fought back from that,” she said. “If we learn anything from the past this is what should rally us together.… Whether we succeed will define this century, … The alternative is chaos”

Around 60 million people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes because of wars, conflict or persecution, according to theUnited Nations. On a global scale, that means one in 122 is displaced, the largest number since the end of World War II. On average, Jolie said, a person will be displaced for nearly 20 years.

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