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  • A priest on Wednesday condemned conditions in Greek migrant camps and suggested using idle cruise ships as alternatives. Greece is where many migrants first set foot on European soil, but several camps have become fetid and dangerous, especially now with COVID-19 sweeping the continent, he told AFP. Maurice Joyeux of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) said migrant hotspots on five Greek islands in the Aegean Sea had become "boils on Europe's skin," and "health bombs" that could explode. He urged authorities to transform cruise ships into welcome centres for the refugees. "Let's join forces, be creative, help refugees confine themselves in dignified conditions," said the priest who is himself confined at a chapel sacristy on the island of Lesbos. "Why not use the big cruise ships" that are now lying idle in Greek ports to house thousands of migrants on Lesbos and neighbouring islands, he said. The priest welcomed a pending transfer of 2,000 migrants from camps to Greek hotels and vacant apartments. But he added that the 2,000 meals his charity distributes along with the Spanish group Zaporeak were little more than sticking plaster when camps designed to house 2,800 people now had more than 19,000 crammed inside. There was barely one toilet for 250 people in the Moria camp, which Joyeaux called an "inacceptable disgusting slum". "In the fight against the coronavirus, the word refugee does not appear," he said. "We are afraid to look the problem in the eye, there is a blindspot" in the European Union's response to the crisis, he added. chv/wai/har
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  • Priest says cruise ships could house migrants in Greece
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