According to the German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, it would concern between 400 and 640 children and teenagers. Chancellor Angela Merkel has already reached an agreement on this with France, whereby 100 to 150 of those minors would be given a home. Some of those minors are said to have already flown to the Greek mainland.
Germany and France hope that eight other EU member states – which have already done so in the past – will join in. The Netherlands would be prepared to receive a few dozen young people, Finland wants eleven. The other countries of the “coalition of the willing” that previously also accepted refugees from Greece are Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. The latter country is not a member of the European Union.
Almost 13,000 people lived in the Moria camp, which was destroyed by fire. Among them there were 4,000 children and teenagers. Some of them came with their parents, others on their own. (Read more below the photo).
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