The burning of Moria is all of Europe's fault


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  • Sunday, 13 Sep 2020

Homeless father and son sleep on the street after a fire destroyed Greece's largest Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. — AFP

IT almost doesn't matter who started the fires this week in the squalid refugee camp in Lesbos called Moria, leaving thousands to sleep on the streets.

It could have been the desperate migrants, dwelling in cramped tents without clean toilets and forced by Covid-19 to "quarantine", whatever that may mean in such conditions. It could have been local Greeks who resent what they see as a slum that sullies their beautiful island. Or the fires could have flared all by themselves, because in such a wretched place, bad things are just bound to happen.

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