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September 17, 2020, 11.11 PM

MYTILENE, KOMPAS.com - Four Afghan migrants have been charged with arson for their alleged involvement in the Lesbos fire that destroyed a large part of the refugee camp.

The names of the four men have not been released though they were seen being led to a court on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Authorities said that the suspects were later returned to police detention and given three days to prepare their testimony.

The fires swept through the overcrowded camp at Moria on two nights last week, prompting more than 12,000 migrants and refugees to flee. Nobody was hurt.

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Most of them remain without shelter, camped on a roadside near the gutted camp.

Two other migrants allegedly involved in setting the fires are minors who are being held by police on the Greek mainland but have not been formally charged.

They were among around 400 unaccompanied minors from Moria who were flown to the mainland after the fires.

The Greek government maintains that the fires at Moria were set deliberately by migrants protesting confinement after the site was locked down due to an outbreak of Covid-19.

Athens on Tuesday urged the European Union to jointly run new refugee camps on Greece’s eastern islands as part of an overhaul of the EU’s migration policies.

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