Quelle: Ekathimerini
by John Hadoulis & Will Vassilopoulos
Inside the barbed-wire enclosure of Moria, Greece’s main migrant camp on Lesvos island, a visiting EU leader learns for the first time how far exhausted Syrian refugees have to walk to begin their long journey to Europe.
„Sixty kilometers?“ Austria’s Chancellor Werner Faymann asks. „Yes, six-zero,“ replies Zaharoula Tsirigoti, the head of Greece’s immigration police.
Over 400,000 people have landed on Greek islands from neighboring Turkey since the beginning of the year, most of them fleeing the civil war in Syria.