In Vilnius
Lying along a narrow, dusty road, the renovated but empty school in the village of Vydeniai in southern Lithuania has been transformed into a refuge.
The white brick building is now home to 150 Africans, all of whom arrived on foot in early July through the birch and pine forests that separate Belarus from Lithuania.
Landed in Minsk to study, Cameroonian Amourou claims to have been betrayed by his smuggler when he thought he was going to Russia and had become the domestic slave of a Turkmen.
It is on social networks that the information circulated to pass in the European Union.
In Grodno, 30 kilometers from the Lithuanian border,
"the city was moving, there were a lot of people, blacks and whites, Arabs and Russians," he
explains.
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He finds his way on his own, spots a line of trucks.
Amourou ends up being arrested.
He understands that he is in Lithuania
“at the sight of the flag on the shoulders”
of the officers.
Every day the border guards
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