‘Sexual assaults on children’ at Greek refugee camps
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Children as young as seven have been sexually assaulted in official European refugee camps, the Observer has been told. The claims come as testimony emerges suggesting that some camps are so unsafe that youngsters are too terrified to leave their tents at night.
Charities and human rights groups allege that children stranded in supposedly safe camps in Greece that were built to deal with Europe’s migration crisis – many of whom are likely to be eligible to claim asylum in the UK – have been sexually abused.
In one government-run camp, in a former Softex toilet roll factory on the outskirts of Thessaloniki, aid organisations claim that the level of risk of sexual attack is so acute that women are too afraid to visit the camp toilets alone at night.
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One volunteer serving at the Softex camp, which holds 1,400 mostly Syrian refugees, alleged that some young girls had been effectively groomed by male gangs. He said an Iraqi family had to be moved to emergency accommodation outside the camp after their daughter was attacked.
“The parents are still in disbelief over what happened. A man from one of the ‘mafia’ groups asked their seven-year-old daughter into their tent to play games on his phone and then zipped up the tent. She came back with marks on her arms and neck. Later the girl described how she was sexually abused. It has scarred a seven-year-old child for life,” said the volunteer, who asked to remain anonymous.
Family members, he said, were so demoralised they were planning to abandon their dream of resettling in Europe and return to the country they had fled.
Anita Dullard of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said there had been a rise in incidents of sexual violence in Greece’s refugee camps and that they had alerted the government.
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[url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/13/child-refugees-sexually-assaulted-at-official-greek-camps?CMP=twt_gu[/url]
It's just their culture guys, relax.
Let the people who want to grab all the asylum seekers in Europe, shove them in some uninhabited island in the Aegean and call it a day see this.
This is one of the refugee camps located near the second largest city in Greece, and policing resources are already stretched enough for this kind of stuff to happen.
Jesus, this whole situation would have been unimaginable a decade ago, and it just keeps getting worse.
[QUOTE=Twistai;50880162]It's just their culture guys, relax.[/QUOTE]
Organized criminal group does bad thing.
[QUOTE=TheBloodyNine;50880402]Organized criminal group does bad thing.[/QUOTE]
Wow dude you can't just call all refugees that.
If I were living in one of these refugee camps, I'd organise a big group of volunteers to walk around at night to keep everyone safe. The way I'd see it is we're all in the same fucking boat, we should be looking out for one another, not taking advantage of each other.
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