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Greek wildfires spur anti-migrant sentiment

Deadly wildfires have been burning across Greece. © Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP

Athens (AFP) – As Greece was hit by wave after wave of wildfires this week, unfounded claims that asylum-seekers are behind some of them whipped up anti-migrant frenzy online.

The speculation intensified after a group of 13 Pakistani and Syrian men were accused by locals of being caught red-handed trying to light a fire outside the city of Alexandroupoli, in the Evros region bordering Turkey.

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