ATHENS: Four Pakistani minors have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old Pakistani boy in a Greek migrant camp, police said Wednesday.
“The four minors, aged 16 to 17, will appear before a prosecutor today,” a police source said. The incident allegedly occurred on Sunday in the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos.
Greece is accommodating over 60,000 refugees and migrants stuck in the country after a succession of Balkan and EU states shut their borders earlier this year. Many of the camps are grossly overpopulated, and rights groups have repeatedly warned that minors must be housed separately for their safety. There are also regular fights amongst refugees and migrants, who are forced to wait months for their asylum applications to be processed.
Some 5,000 people had to be evacuated from the Moria camp last week when a fire broke out after another brawl.
Greece is in the process of building additional camps on the mainland with EU funds.
But Athens says it has still not received the required EU staff promised by fellow member states to process a massive wave of asylum applications.
Greece has also bemoaned the failure of fellow member states to accept thousands of refugees from its camps, despite a highly publicised EU scheme launched last year.
