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Publicat el 26 agost 2017 per mlopez79

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Emran evaded the Taliban in Afghanistan, travelled hundreds of miles alone and found refuge in Germany

11-year-old Emran should be at school. Should be with his mum and dad and younger siblings enjoying a peace apparently secured in his native Afghanistan by Allied forces. Instead this boy with an ever-present smile and unquenchable spirit is on the road, navigating his own way across southern and mainland Europe because, as he puts it very matter-of-factly, “The Taliban started killing children as they walked to school, so my father sent me to Europe.”Imagine that. Aged just 11 and “sent” by his parents on a journey that would take him from Iran to Turkey, across the sea to Greece and then through a continent pockmarked with danger from kidnappers and smugglers and populated with people weary and wary of those like him – refugees.

Filmmaker Jamie Roberts (The Jihadis Next Door) first met Emran at a camp in Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border early last year. He wanted to tell the story of child refugees, but the crossing had just been closed and the boy’s search for sanctuary in Germany appeared to be thwarted.

 

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