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The Afghan family who got tired of a life strung out on a bunk bed

2023-01-11T18:56:57.733Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - Tired of living conditions that do not allow a glimpse of a future that is slow to materialize, this couple with three children, who have been refugees in Spain for eight months, have submitted a request for voluntary return. Other refugees are going through a similar situation.


By Maria Martin

(El País)

At 33 and six months pregnant, Anjila Hamidi escaped from Afghanistan.

It was April 2022, already eight months after the Taliban took power, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee, including women and collaborators from foreign countries.

She and her husband, prosecutors, were blacklisted by the new regime.

The couple sold all their valuables and crossed the Iranian border in their vehicle.

They couldn't turn back.

On June 20, thanks to a safe-conduct from the Spanish Embassy, ​​accompanied by their two children, aged two and seven, they landed in Barajas.

Anjila knew that the sequel would be strewn with pitfalls.

However, she had never imagined that the reception conditions in Spain would push her, eight months later,

Meanwhile, little Kasra is born in this country, but the family does not have the heart to celebrate his…

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Source: lefigaro

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