Greek Police were called in the early hours of Monday morning, to quell a riot that broke out at the Moria refugee processing center on Lesvos.
Reports suggested the riot was mostly restricted to the area of the massively overcrowded camp; which houses some 350 unaccompanied minors, and caused damage to UNHCR facilities and the office of a non-governmental organization.
Authorities on the island of Lesvos were on strike on Monday urging residents to take part in anti-government protests against the policy of containment of refugees and migrants on Greece’s islands.
In a statement, the island’s municipality called the strike against the policy of turning Lesvos into an “island prison.”
The Greek government and the EU have ignored pleas from the mayors of Lesvos, and the nearby islands of Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos, to allow more migrants to travel to the Greek mainland, resulting in major overcrowding at the island facilities.
More than 8,000 migrants and refugees are stranded on Lesvos, where the reception capacity stands at 1,500.
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