Moria’s residents are frustrated after last night’s episodes that followed a fire that broke out at the refugee camp in Moria at Lesbos. They came out of their homes and, together with the police forces, tried to keep the refugees away, so that the turmoil would not continue in the village.
The fire had started deliberately in protest at the conditions of the camp which now is destroyed by 60% while 20 acres of oil trees have been burned down.
“We were scared. How can you not be afraid of such a situation? I don’t know why they did all these things last night. They burned their shelter and they came out to the streets shouting. We don’t sleep, we stay awake, so we will know if they try to get into our house”, Mrs Komninaki told protothema.gr.
“A premise with olives was burned down. My husband bought it when he was a worker and he had given a big fight to finally own it”, Mrs Komninaki said to Proto Thema.

“The camp has the capacity to house around 600 people but there are over 5.000 there. We went there, they were angry people everywhere, until the early hours of the morning they went on burning everything down”, Mrs Antigoni Tsakiri said to protothema.gr, adding that “I think that responsible for all these atrocities are the several NGO’s, whose behavior is weird. The village on the other hand has given its help and has shown its solidarity in any possible way”.

The village’s president Nikos Trakellis told that the “Government has to do something about the refugee camp here, it is overcrowded. Moreover, it has to look at the serious problem of the sewage that is shed into the river, causing germs to spread and to threaten our health”. He also said the NGOs are really annoying and their behavior is at least doubtful.