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Weekend: Violence against migrants amid Greek wildfires

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Violence against migrants amid Greek wildfires

27/08/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Violence against migrants amid Greek wildfires

The country’s Supreme Court has warned of incitement to ‘pogroms’ against immigrants

Greece’s Supreme Court has announced an investigation into violence and incitement to what it called ‘racist pogroms’ as some accuse migrants of being behind this summer’s deadly wildfires. This week the bodies of 19 people, believed to be asylum seekers, were found in the remains of a camp destroyed by wildfires near the Turkish border. We’ll be speaking to Greece’s minister for Migration and Asylum. 

Also on the programme: Incumbent president Emerson Mnangagwa wins re-election in Zimbabwe; and they may be funny online, but can the stars of TikTok make the leap to live comedy? 

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss all this and more are Mark Kersten, Assistant Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Fraser Valley in Canada, and Kate Clark, Co-Director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network.

IMAGE: The destroyed camp where the bodies of eighteen people, believed to be migrants, were found in Evros, Greece. CREDIT: REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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