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Agence France-Presse

Authorities on the Greek island of Lesbos are investigating the suspected rape of a three-year-old Afghan girl in a migrant camp, a migration ministry source said Tuesday.
The girl was found semi-conscious and bleeding in a lavatory in the camp of Kara Tepe late on Monday, the source said.
“Camp doctors have confirmed” the incident, the official said.
A forensic inspection is required to determine the girl’s condition.

The site housing more than 7,300 people was hastily erected in September after a fire gutted the camp of Moria, Europe’s largest.
The tent camp was flooded this week after several days of rain, despite drainage work carried out in the makeshift facility in October.
“So many tents are wet and there is not any dry place to go … We are afraid so many people will get very sick now,” a group of camp migrant volunteers said in a Facebook post Sunday.
The European Commission earlier this month said it had agreed with Greek authorities and EU agencies to establish a “new, up-to-standard reception centre” on Lesbos by September 2021.

Concentration camps for refugees, Lesvos, Greece Europe 2020 #RefugeesGr #antireport #LeaveNoOneBehind pic.twitter.com/KIIR281TKr
— NoBorders (@Refugees_Gr) December 12, 2020

On Sunday, police sources said three Greek border patrol agents and one policeman have been charged with beating asylum seekers outside the Kara Tepe camp.
The four men, charged with inflicting bodily harm, torture and breaking anti-racist laws, were brought before a prosecutor on Saturday night after an investigation led by Athens’ police internal affairs unit.
They were released pending their trial.
A video aired on social media shows four men beating two asylum seekers in the camp on the Aegean island as they were returned from a supermarket on Friday.

The two asylum seekers were returning to the camp from the supermarket
The police stopped them for a check and for an unknown reason started beating them. #Refugeesgr #antireport Watch > https://t.co/x69zzVjWOj
— NoBorders (@Refugees_Gr) December 11, 2020

The policemen keep beating them even after handcuffing.
On Friday night, the police announced an investigation on the matter.
Police sources said the four men claimed they hit the asylum seekers because they were attacking passing cars and drunk.


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Camp doctors have confirmed the incident, which involved an Afghan girl. A forensic inspection is required to determine her condition
The tent camp housing more than 7,300 people was hastily erected in September after a fire gutted the camp of Moria, Europe’s largest



The three-year-old girl was found semi-conscious and bleeding in a lavatory in the Kara Tepe camp on Lesbos island late on Monday.
