‘ISIS & Drugs Everywhere’: Refugees Face Violence in Notorious Moria Camp, New Doc Shows

Wondering where all the ISIS fighters disappeared to?

FILE PHOTO Moria camp for refugees and migrants on the island of Lesbos, Greece. © Reuters/Elias Marcou

Kurds and Yazidis are in fear of their lives as they try to survive amid rampant lawlessness and militant attacks in an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, a controversial new documentary shows.

“My life has been in danger since the first day I arrived here. I haven’t got a good night’s sleep,” one of the residents of the infamous Moria camp told the crew of the documentary ‘Borderless’, which is meant to highlight the migrant crisis in Europe.

The interviewed asylum-seekers claimed the camp was infiltrated by terrorists from Islamic State, “ISIS is here… They can rape, they can kill, they can steal. And the drugs are everywhere.”

They attack minorities, such as Yazidi or Kurds. They killed four Kurds lately in this camp.

The residents also complained that police largely ignore the widespread crime.

“We told them many times to put a camera at least, to protect ourselves,” a man was filmed saying, adding that his requests were rejected.

The facility, designed to accommodate around 3,000 people, currently has 10,000 people living there, most having come from the Middle East. Multiple reports of horrible living conditions coupled with the rampant violence within the camp have sparked protests by human rights groups, locals, and the refugees themselves.

Meanwhile, the producers of ‘Borderless’ have attracted controversy of their own. The project is fronted by Canadian-born pundit and activist Lauren Southern, whom critics have described as ‘far-right’ and accused of spreading hatred against Muslims (as is everyone who is not politically correct, ie far-left). Last year, she was briefly detained by the British authorities – for distributing “racist material” – and was barred from entering the country.

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The film’s producer Caolan Robertson told RT that his crew decided to explore Moria as they heard of “disastrous things” happening there.

“There was no security there. There was almost no control whatsoever,” he recalled, describing “an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness” he got while staying in the camp.

Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece. © Louisa Gouliama / AFP

Robertson, who used to work closely with controversial British anti-immigration campaigner Tommy Robinson, said that asylum-seekers were surprised to encounter radicals in Moria.

“One man told us off camera that the reason he fled the Middle East was to escape from radical Islam…. When they arrived to Europe, within days they were experiencing the same thing.”

Maybe it's time to think about going back to Syria?

But, of course, the pressure is on Europe to do something about this madness. And even though these are mostly all Muslims who are suffering, Islam does not seem to be prepared to do anything to ease their suffering.

Europe should turn them all, except the Yazidis and Christians, back to Islam to deal with.

Rescuing Refugees from Drowning will be ‘Criminalized’ Under New EU Law – Activists

The EU has hastily drawn up poorly thought-out laws
that would label those who rescue migrants from the sea
as smugglers subject to criminal proceedings

© Giorgos Moutafis / Reuters

A petition has been launched calling on EU leaders to scrap plans that would criminalize those who rescue migrants and refugees arriving on the Greek islands as part of a push to secure the border between Turkey and Greece.

London-based civil liberties watchdog Statewatch has released the confidential European Commission report detailing the plan, which was outlined in talks between EU ministers in Amsterdam late last month.

The proposed plans would remove the exemption for charities, volunteer groups and others who provide “humanitarian assistance” to refugees from being considered “smugglers.” Under the new rules, which are aimed at reducing human smuggling and trafficking, these groups and individuals would be criminalized.

The EU would instead create a state-run agency that would force would-be volunteers to register with the police and work under tightly controlled EU relief plans.

The petition, which has amassed almost 5,000 signatures to date, was launched by an activist in London and calls on the European Commission to scrap the plans.

Statewatch director Tony Bunyan says the plan “fails to acknowledge the crucial role played by Greek islanders and volunteers in rescuing and caring for migrants who cross the Mediterranean in unsafe vessels.

“The EU should amend its anti-smuggling laws as soon as possible to confirm that no one giving such vital humanitarian assistance should ever be penalized for it.”

In January alone, at least 244 refugees drowned trying to cross the Aegean Sea. This figure is three times higher than the 82 who died last January and 20 times higher than the 12 who died in 2014. 

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), nearly 37,000 migrants have arrived in Italy and Greece by sea since the beginning of last year.

The Greek Island of Lesbos (Lesvos) is in the eastern Aegean just off the coast of Turkey