Berlin – The planned admission of 50 minors from the refugee camps on the Greek islands to Germany is not sufficient from the view of Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth (Greens).
The promise by Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer was “long overdue and at the same time a drop in the ocean”, said the TEH Greens politician. Germany is asked not only to quickly take in the 350 children who have long been promised but to “finally meet its humanitarian responsibility with higher contingents”.
The situation in the overcrowded camps was a “humanitarian catastrophe and human rights disgrace even before the Corona crisis,” said Roth. The virus now threatens to hit people who are already weakened and have to live under disastrous hygienic conditions. Aid organizations have been demanding for weeks that the 40,000 people there should not be left alone.
Germany plans to host 50 unaccompanied minors next week. After a two-week quarantine, they are to be distributed to several federal states. The Federal Cabinet should decide on admission this Wednesday.
In addition to Germany, Luxembourg had also agreed to accept twelve unaccompanied minors at short notice. From the grand coalition in Berlin, it was said that Greece and the UN refugee agency had so far only gathered all the necessary information for this group, i.e. the 50 plus 12 minors.
