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Monday 4 September 2023
Greek Wildfires: Arsonists Arrested (Pakistani and Syrian Illegal Muslim Immigrants)
GREECE: 79 Pakistani and Syrian Muslim illegal alien invaders arrested for arson in deadly wildfires
Greek government officials labeled the Pakistani and Syrian Muslim suspects as “arsonist scum” while announcing the arrests. The group of 79 Pakistani and Syrian Muslim men were accused by locals of being caught red-handed trying to light a fire outside the city of Alexandroupoli, in the Evros region bordering Turkey.
REMIX News For the past week, Greece has once again been plagued by wildfires, particularly in the vicinity of Alexandroupolis, in the northeast of the country, near the border with Turkey.
A video posted on social networks last Tuesday says the group was caught red-handed trying to start a fire near the town of Alexandroupolis. They have been charged with illegal entry and attempted arson by a public prosecutor, but one government source says the fire was an “accident.”
The migrants allegedly responsible for the arson were locked in a trailer by a local businessman, who filmed the incident and called the police. According to a translation provided by the Greek City Times, the businessman said the following about the incident:
“The scene of the incident was 200 meters from my business. Several improvised incendiary structures were found in the area. In the previous days, the suburbs and settlements of Alexandroupolis had been evacuated, as well as the University General Hospital. Naturally, all the residents had lost sleep and were on the alert for any fires.
At the specific point between Alexandroupolis and S. Chile, behind a supermarket chain, I spotted a group of 13 people who were around an object and were trying to set it on fire while holding a balloon that smelled of gasoline, and they also brought a knife with them.
The fires have been plaguing Greece all summer, and in the most recent case, several bodies have been found charred by the flames. So far, Greek authorities say up to 20 lives have been lost due to the wildfires.
The area where the migrants were arrested and the presence of so many migrants crossing the border has fueled resentment from locals. Some have been quoted as saying they believe the migrants are setting the fires to spread chaos near the border in order to make it easier for them to evade authorities, who will likely be too preoccupied with evacuating residents and putting out fires to bother policing the area.
Although the investigation in this case is still ongoing, migrants have a long history of setting fires in Greece, especially to their own migrant camps, as Remix News has previously reported. The motive, in many cases, was to force authorities to either move them to the Greek mainland or transfer them to other European countries due to a lack of shelter.
“There is no doubt that Moria was burned by some Muslim refugees and migrants who tried to blackmail the government by burning Moria down and demanded their immediate relocation from the island,” said Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the time.
As Remix News also reported, a major fire that burned down the migrant camp at Moria in 2020 led to the arrest of five Afghan migrants. Police sources said that five alleged arsonists all had their asylum applications rejected prior to the arson.
Migrants walk at the burned Moria refugee after a fire, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Fire struck again Wednesday night in Greece’s notoriously overcrowded refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, a day after a blaze swept through it and left thousands in need of emergency shelter. The fires caused no injuries, but they renewed criticism of Europe’s migration policy. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Anti-migrant sentiment is strong in Greek border areas, where locals accuse asylum seekers of stealing and say reckless driving by smugglers poses a serious traffic risk.
“I am absolutely convinced that the fires were caused by migrants,” Evros resident Christos Paschalakis told AFP. “They burn us, they steal from us, they kill us in road accidents,” he said. “I have no doubt that the forest fire was started by migrants,” said Vangelis Rallis, a 70-year-old retired logger from Dadia, a village near a key national park that also burned last year. “They burned it last year, and this year they returned to finish the job. They may have even been paid to do it. They want to destroy us,” he said.
Muslim migrants have set fire to migrant camps a number of times in Greece and on the European mainland. Often, the fires on the Greek islands were started in order to force authorities to move migrants away from camps to the Greek mainland or to European countries like Germany, which is the desired destination for many migrants entering Europe.
The incidents on the Greek islands follow a long history of migrants starting fires in their own camps, both in Greece and other European nations.
On April 26 and the other on April 27, three separate fires ripped through the Vathy camp on the Greek island of Samos, leaving tents and containers destroyed and 200 residents homeless. Greek authorities say the fires started due to clashes between people living inside the camp, and ethnic tensions may have been a factor in those clashes.
Unconfirmed reports from Ekathimerini also indicate that migrants fueled the second fire in an effort to be taken out of the Vathy camp, which houses 7,000 migrants despite being meant to fit 648.
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