The Federal Republic could help even without the participation of the other EU member states. In an interview with the FAS, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, he called for a large-scale migrant transfer from the islands off the Turkish coast. “Get the kids out first,” he told the Sunday paper.
Quick aid is a “commandment of humanity”, because among the 4 000 children on the Greek Mediterranean islands are “many girls, many fragile little people”. In view of the alleged need in the camps for migrants, Green Leader Habeck declined to set a maximum limit for the number of refugees that Berlin should take over.
In any case, Germany would have to act if other EU countries did not want to participate in the distribution of migrants: “Not everyone will do it.”
The red-red-green ruled states of Berlin and Thuringia have already agreed to accept migrants from Greece. The green coalition partner in the state government of Baden-Württemberg and the Lower Saxony SPD Interior Minister Boris Pistorius is ready.
According to the Greek government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, almost two thirds of the migrants come from Afghanistan and Pakistan, and about 11 percent were refugees from different Syrian provinces.
On Thursday there were riots on Samos when 300 foreigners went on a rampage out of rage for not being brought to mainland Greece and hurled stones at the police, who had to defend themselves from the attackers with tear gas.
According to Prime Minister Mitsotakis, many of the irregular immigrants were not entitled to protection and asylum and have to be sent back to Turkey immediately under the EU-Turkey refugee agreement of 2016.