Grande-Synthe (North)
In a grove, along the canal, three tents are pitched in the mud.
Abdullah, 20, has been living here for a few days with his little brother and his mother.
This young Iraqi looks very tired and scarred.
Very quickly, he confides that he was very scared the day before: “
We could have died too.
We were on the beach with about fifty people.
We were getting ready to go out to sea on a boat when the police arrived.
They told us that people had died at sea and that we should not leave.
"
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Back in Grande-Synthe, Abdullah and his family, who gave a lot of money to the smugglers, reflected and decided to abandon their plan to go to England: "
We are cold, we want to leave here, to go. in a hotel,
”he says before talking about Germany or staying in France.
"
I don't really know, but right now, we need help,
" he worries.
A little further on, Karzan, 31, arrived in Grande-Synthe in mid-October, almost tells
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