The North Rhine-Westphalia's Premier-President (governor)....Armin Laschet (CDU Party) went and tried to do a VIP tour this morning of a refugee camp in Lesbos (isle of Greece). To place the isle, it's about 12 miles off the coast of Turkey....making it a primary site for refugees leaving Africa or Afghanistan....to land on and claim asylum.
The Greeks who run the isle.....are basically stuck with the refugees (now going on four years).
The Moria refugee camp is basically overcrowded, and marginally working as designed.
It's hard to say what Laschet's original idea was.....maybe just for images and get noted in the public news back in Germany.
If you look around, Laschet is probably one of the ten most noted CDU members in Germany today. He was putting himself up for the Chancellor election for the party.
So the visit to the camp....went into chaos, mostly for security reasons. Why the cancellation? Well....camp residents felt this was the Chancellor of Germany, and if they could just convince him of their slum-like situation....he'd grant them access into Germany. No....I'd not kidding....they actually believed that.
The fact that this camp was housing 14k refugees? Well, this visit could have turned in massive mess....if a riot had occurred, or Laschet had been cornered in some part of the camp.
Where Laschet had gotten this idea for the visit? Unknown. Maybe it was purely for his Chancellor candidate idea.
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