Reportage über die atuelle Lage in Izmir mit Fotos und Video

Quelle: Ekathimerini

At the mercy of traffickers

Kathimerini goes in search of the smuggling networks based in Turkey that send boatloads of people toward the shores of Greece

At the refugee camp of Kara Tepe, 4 kilometers from the town of Mytilene on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, lunchtime is the hardest part of the day. The honking of the white van that brings in 1,200 lunches a day gets the hundreds of migrants and refugees staying at the former educational park out of their tents. They swarm the vehicle, grab onto its roof, push and shove, at risk of being trampled. The driver, Stavros Agas, tries to calm them. […]