The bodies of two male refugees were found last week in a Greek town close to the border with North Macedonia.
According to the Greek Forum of Refugees, the two men were in Mouries, in northern Greece, and were living in a hotel that was packed with up to 400 refugees. One was an Afghan aged about 33 and a father of two, the other was an Iraqi man aged about 30.
“We have terrible news from Mouries … two men committed suicide yesterday and today,” said the organisation in a statement.
The body of the Afghan man was hanging close to a bridge near the hotel on Wednesday, while the body of the Iraqi man was discovered by his roommate in one of the hotel’s corridors.
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According to Greek authorities, more than 40,000 total migrants and refugees are being held, often in desperate conditions, in camps on several Greek islands.
Meanwhile Deutsche Welle has reported that Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU)is opposed to the Green Party’ss call to bring to Germany up to 4,000 children in overcrowded refugee camps on Greek islands off the Turkish coast.
Roughly 4,000 children, including “many girls, many fragile little people,” are in need of urgent help and it is a “requirement of humanity,” Greens party leader Rober Habeck has told a German newspaper.
A CDU spokesman Gunter Krings has responded: that “unilateral admission campaigns for certain groups are not a solution.”
He said that helping from a distance was a more appropriate measure and would not risk bypassing “all European legal rules.”
Last week the Greek government predicted an influx of up 100,00 asylum seekers in 2020.