Greek government officials labeled the Pakistani and Syrian Muslim suspects as “arsonist scum” while announcing the arrests. The group of 79 Pakistani and Syrian Muslim men were accused by locals of being caught red-handed trying to light a fire outside the city of Alexandroupoli, in the Evros region bordering Turkey.
REMIX News For the past week, Greece has once again been plagued by wildfires, particularly in the vicinity of Alexandroupolis, in the northeast of the country, near the border with Turkey.
A video posted on social networks last Tuesday says the group was caught red-handed trying to start a fire near the town of Alexandroupolis. They have been charged with illegal entry and attempted arson by a public prosecutor, but one government source says the fire was an “accident.”
The migrants allegedly responsible for the arson were locked in a trailer by a local businessman, who filmed the incident and called the police. According to a translation provided by the Greek City Times, the businessman said the following about the incident:
“The scene of the incident was 200 meters from my business. Several improvised incendiary structures were found in the area. In the previous days, the suburbs and settlements of Alexandroupolis had been evacuated, as well as the University General Hospital. Naturally, all the residents had lost sleep and were on the alert for any fires.
At the specific point between Alexandroupolis and S. Chile, behind a supermarket chain, I spotted a group of 13 people who were around an object and were trying to set it on fire while holding a balloon that smelled of gasoline, and they also brought a knife with them.
The fires have been plaguing Greece all summer, and in the most recent case, several bodies have been found charred by the flames. So far, Greek authorities say up to 20 lives have been lost due to the wildfires.
The area where the migrants were arrested and the presence of so many migrants crossing the border has fueled resentment from locals. Some have been quoted as saying they believe the migrants are setting the fires to spread chaos near the border in order to make it easier for them to evade authorities, who will likely be too preoccupied with evacuating residents and putting out fires to bother policing the area.
Although the investigation in this case is still ongoing, migrants have a long history of setting fires in Greece, especially to their own migrant camps, as Remix News has previously reported. The motive, in many cases, was to force authorities to either move them to the Greek mainland or transfer them to other European countries due to a lack of shelter.
“There is no doubt that Moria was burned by some Muslim refugees and migrants who tried to blackmail the government by burning Moria down and demanded their immediate relocation from the island,” said Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the time.
As Remix News also reported, a major fire that burned down the migrant camp at Moria in 2020 led to the arrest of five Afghan migrants. Police sources said that five alleged arsonists all had their asylum applications rejected prior to the arson.
Anti-migrant sentiment is strong in Greek border areas, where locals accuse asylum seekers of stealing and say reckless driving by smugglers poses a serious traffic risk.
“I am absolutely convinced that the fires were caused by migrants,” Evros resident Christos Paschalakis told AFP. “They burn us, they steal from us, they kill us in road accidents,” he said. “I have no doubt that the forest fire was started by migrants,” said Vangelis Rallis, a 70-year-old retired logger from Dadia, a village near a key national park that also burned last year. “They burned it last year, and this year they returned to finish the job. They may have even been paid to do it. They want to destroy us,” he said.
Muslim migrants have set fire to migrant camps a number of times in Greece and on the European mainland. Often, the fires on the Greek islands were started in order to force authorities to move migrants away from camps to the Greek mainland or to European countries like Germany, which is the desired destination for many migrants entering Europe.
The incidents on the Greek islands follow a long history of migrants starting fires in their own camps, both in Greece and other European nations.
On April 26 and the other on April 27, three separate fires ripped through the Vathy camp on the Greek island of Samos, leaving tents and containers destroyed and 200 residents homeless. Greek authorities say the fires started due to clashes between people living inside the camp, and ethnic tensions may have been a factor in those clashes.
Unconfirmed reports from Ekathimerini also indicate that migrants fueled the second fire in an effort to be taken out of the Vathy camp, which houses 7,000 migrants despite being meant to fit 648.
Two weeks ago, fires broke out following a riot inside the Vial camp on Chios island that left hundreds of residents homeless.
When I read about the wildfires in Greece, my first thought was arson. My second thought was Muslims. My third thought was the border with Turkey. A repeat of previous years, they sow a path of destruction if life doesn’t go their way. Poor Greek people, how is it the troublemakers are still allowed to set foot in Greece?
New to me is the term “climate communism” which I just heard recently pertaining to the Maui fiasco. How spot on is that phrase?
Sure is perfect!
The lamestream media be like “See, climate change is real! Let’s take away more of your rights, energy independence, and block out opposing voices that prove us wrong because we know best of course!”
https://tinyurl.com/5hf7atsp
Our useless politicians. They ingest our homelands with the worst enemies of any success we might have achieved since WW2. Blood sucking Muslims. Phoney political men in knickers transmitting like a venerial disease. Who wants to be kicked around by a cold revenge filled minority mob? Surely we do love our countries and are proud of our past and ancestors struggle to survive? Who in their right mind would want vile violent Muslim wasters hanging out spitting at them at every twist and turn.
Greeks, like everywhere in the once civilized western countries, had better learn quickly. These muslim invaders are enemy combatants.
The Greeks know, they do not need to learn. It is the treacherous Left and the bankers the Greeks are fighting, as well as the muslim parasites.
backfire their land with a known recipe to melt sand and turn it into glass
although I have been to many regions throw my life I have never smelled a more repulsive and repugnant smell (literally) like that of turkey and I don’t mean the thanks giving main dish the islamo fascist country
my goodness how such animals claim to be of devine and sacred origins
even the US didn’t smell like that actually it didn’t smell it was normal you’d walk the streets normally without being hit with the stink all of a sudden
It makes me wonder in muslims had anything to do with the wildfires in North America instead of leftist climate change activists.
It’s appalling how many Greeks have forgotten their history. After 400 years of the Ottoman boot, you’d think they’d think twice before letting them into the country. Even members of my own family whose grandparents fled Turkish persecution brush stories like this one off. Big time denial.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Same problem in Spain. “Those who ignore history…..”
Also those who ignore the obvious. The Muslims don’t seem to be ignoring anything.
The Levant and Anatolia were once part of Greek Empires, but the Moslems have, alas, conquered them all!