A refugee camp on the island of Moria in Greece was torched, it seems, by arsonists who are suspected of being loyalists to the now-dissipated Golden Dawn, a neofascist/Metaxist party in Greece whose leadership was arrested after committing dozens of illegal acts. 12,000 people lived inside the overcrowded camp, and hundreds had already tested positive for coronavirus.
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