Despite a heat approaching 30 degrees this Sunday, October 17, four men, at the end of a quay, are curled up, hoods pulled over their heads, without exchanging a word. Their gaze is turned to the other side of the shore of the Bidassoa, the river separating Irun, in Spain, and Hendaye, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Automatically, the four men exchange a bottle of water and wash their faces. Samy, from Algeria, and Ali, from Morocco, try to return to France, from where they were expelled a few months earlier. While Anas and Mohammed, arriving together from Casablanca after five months of walking, wish to continue their journey to Canada. But today, one goal unites them: that of crossing the border to enter French territory.
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The border between Irun and Hendaye is delimited by the Bidassoa river, which empties into the Bay of Biscay.
To cross it, there are several access points: the bridge
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