Phone began ringing at half past eight in the evening, and knew Asim topic that will revolve around him until the call before responding to them, and knew also that this call may serve as an impetus to start his life again. However, the difficult experiences and frustrations previous taught him not to expect too much. It has become this kind of phone calls are routine too, to the extent that it does not even mention the subject of the call, but after ten minutes from the time of termination. Asim says: «By the way, this was the call is an incoming connection from my brother, and was to inform me to go to an interview Getaway».
Assesses Asim, aged 25 years old, and his brother, who is 18 years old, in a place not welcoming them. And two of the approximately 40 thousand refugees, and asylum seekers (according to UN estimates) currently in Greece.
The Greece of countries that are struggling, passing under the worst economic crisis in decades, and flows into its territory illegal immigrants through its shores. These commands and provides a volatile mix together; neo-Nazi party «Golden Dawn», which includes its program to adopt a hard-line nationalism and racism absolute, which is currently 18 seats in the Greek Parliament. The headquarters of the party in the area Asim, but says that it does not bother him too much. And he explains: «Police are that raise my concern over the fascists, and this is the reason for the scarcity of my departure from my house, in case the police arrested Ali, perhaps I spend six months in prison».
Exploits «Golden Dawn» gradually escalation of popular discontent. And feel a lot of people in Greece that the country has become as a back door secret illegal access to Europe, it is the easiest route through which to reach the promised land for tens of thousands of immigrants who are desperate journeys verge of East every year.
However, Greece has become, in fact, serve as a fence to Europe. It may be this country is where you enter through which large numbers of immigrants to Europe, but it is not the place where they want to live. Asim says: «Of course we do not want to stay here, do not want one at all to stay in this place. Any person who does not like to be a refugee in this country ». It turned harsh conditions in dramatically; he does not want to stay here, as the Greeks do not want to be in this country also, however, it is almost impossible for him to leave the country.
The video clips bright presented by the Tourism Council of the Greek in the rings fantastic in Metro stations Athens imagine Committee pastoral pretty involved in a little personality, with living suffocating suffered by Asim, where he lives, five of them in a room in the suburb of specific features for a period of six months in the city. Asim told me (with a laugh mocking the whole situation) that «it is always my desire to travel. Only I did not want to travel at all in this image ».
10 months ago, did not travel Asim and his family outside Damascus. However, the devastating air raid that has been waged on their region in December (December) last forced them to sell their home and belongings and their car, and start the trek under the responsibility of people smugglers. At the present time, the family scattered across Europe Asim, where there are his mother and sisters in Germany, while his father lives in Turkey, and his aunts and aunts live in Sweden, while his maternal uncles and uncles residing in Denmark.
He adds Asim saying: «In the beginning, we went to Lebanon and stayed there for one month, then we applied for Tachiratna to enter Turkey. After that, we traveled to Istanbul. I liked the place there, and I wanted residence, and found a job graphic designer, but she wanted my family to come to Europe, and I had to go down on their desire; You know how strong family ties in the Middle East, where the members of our family bound together by strong bonds ».
With the increase in unit war in Syria, diminished options for people wishing to escape out of the country. In southern Turkey, met with two girls from Latakia, began a new life in Egypt, before Tdtara to leave Egypt again after the removal of the President Morsi and a heightened state of hostility against the Syrians. Worse still, that the Republic of Cyprus has recently announced that they will not let the Syrians walk across the border again. Also, he discovered a Syrian friend, lives and works in Turkey, there is no in front of him at the moment, only nine countries in the entire world could travel to a vacation without a visa. «Moreover, I need a visa to enter Somalia», said Asim, which in the case of the surrender of recreation for himself.
The only option available to most Syrians who want to go to Europe represented in going to Greece illegally. Once they enter there, you can not force them to leave the country, where they are granted political asylum, and be allowed to apply for residency, but there is no escape from applying from abroad, and therefore, do not have to travel to Europe via the network mysterious smugglers is the last resort to get there, but it is the only option available. I have followed the family Asim itinerary being followed by many, but their story reveal how it was risky journey can not predict its outcome.
The first plan is to buy fake passports of a people smugglers, with the use of these passports to travel from Istanbul to anywhere else in Europe. Asim explains this, saying: «They are looking for someone who seems to like you. Some of the funds are granted to the person who owns a passport, and waiting for 30 days until a reported theft of these passports. However, that price is customary for the passport stolen in Istanbul up to 8000 dollars, and the family can not afford to pay those expenses. Therefore, there was no need in front of the family but to resort to the second option ».
He adds Asim said: «Some advised to travel by boat to Athens, where they see that this method is much easier than air travel from the airport there. Therefore, we have held a deal with smugglers, where he took $ 1000 from each and every one of us, and told us that there will be a bus take us to the coast at four in the morning. From this place, we will take the boat to Greece ».
The clarity with which retrieves from which Asim details that journey reveals to us the extent to which printed this journey in his mind beyond the border. Asim says: «They organize those trips to pursue such a method. The boat is a rubber boat, but the lower part of it is made of wood. Therefore, women and children sit in the heart of the boat, while the men sit above the piece of rubber around the outside. The length of the boat six meters, and was on board Forty people ».
In the light of the moon, Asim already managed to see the Greek island that they are turning to it, even when he stood on the shores of Turkey. I've looked island very close to the point that I think that are accessible will take only 10 minutes. Getaway did not come with them, but people knew how to drive a boat ». Asim added: «did not pay that person's only half the required amount, but it is a big risk. In the case of the arrest you, you will be condemn that person as if he was the getaway ». They were unsure of it will be arrested. Did not trip takes 10 minutes, but it lasted for two hours.
Asim was sure that he will be spotted by Coast Guard vessels, while traveling at night in the direction of Greece under the shade of the sky Menkhah clouds. He was perched on the chest Asim fate of some former passengers who set sail for the night, where some of them fell in the area in the frigid waters of the sea in the month of February and drowned. Asim says: «I'm still surprised by the success of that trip».
26 people traveled from the family members of Asem to Greece, but his father was not among these people, the killing of his brother in the air raid, which was launched in December (December), and his father remained in Damascus to relieve his mother and condolences. At the present time, under constant bombardment and siege of the area by Assad's forces, he left his father and also Syria, which is currently stuck in Turkey waiting for his chance to make the trip the same boat and catch up with the rest of his family members. He adds Asim saying: «I've already tried that and my dad is the journey four times, but each time, he was to be arrested and sent back. I think they have now increased Coast Guard vessels on the Turkish and Greek sides. Succeed boat and only one out of every five or six boats in transit. And my father will try again next week ».
The plan represented the family to travel to Sweden. Asim explains, saying: «I went the rest of my family members there first. The idea was that I my brother and I Snsavr there later », and the smugglers were paid 3,000 euros for each person in order to obtain false passports to leave Greece, however, that the family did not have enough money for each of its members. But the mother of Asim and his sisters were Toukifan discovery and ordered them while moving in between flights in Germany.
According to EU rules, you should apply for asylum in the first country to reach him. Therefore, they had to stay in Germany, despite not knowing anyone there, as well as their inability to speak the German language.
The on Asim and his brother now that play a waiting game, as long as they are trying to get out of Greece. I have already tried to get out of Greece but failed four times when used for fake passports. Each time, ordered them to be discovered and repatriated. With the end of the tourism season and the lack of passengers at airports, it becomes more rigorous security screening, as prices rise demanded by smugglers. Asim finished drinking his coffee and left the place to meet his contact point to see another rate prices. Asim and tell me, saying: «The money is running out with us, as we have already spent all the money that we have collected from the sale of the house and the car».
Asim adds: «The next day, the person sending the e-mail message to me, asked me where 5,500 euros for each individual. And every time the price rises ».
In spite of the desperate position, he was able to show a spirit of humor tinged with bitterness and wrote: «address today: I will die in Athens».
Assesses Asim, aged 25 years old, and his brother, who is 18 years old, in a place not welcoming them. And two of the approximately 40 thousand refugees, and asylum seekers (according to UN estimates) currently in Greece.
The Greece of countries that are struggling, passing under the worst economic crisis in decades, and flows into its territory illegal immigrants through its shores. These commands and provides a volatile mix together; neo-Nazi party «Golden Dawn», which includes its program to adopt a hard-line nationalism and racism absolute, which is currently 18 seats in the Greek Parliament. The headquarters of the party in the area Asim, but says that it does not bother him too much. And he explains: «Police are that raise my concern over the fascists, and this is the reason for the scarcity of my departure from my house, in case the police arrested Ali, perhaps I spend six months in prison».
Exploits «Golden Dawn» gradually escalation of popular discontent. And feel a lot of people in Greece that the country has become as a back door secret illegal access to Europe, it is the easiest route through which to reach the promised land for tens of thousands of immigrants who are desperate journeys verge of East every year.
However, Greece has become, in fact, serve as a fence to Europe. It may be this country is where you enter through which large numbers of immigrants to Europe, but it is not the place where they want to live. Asim says: «Of course we do not want to stay here, do not want one at all to stay in this place. Any person who does not like to be a refugee in this country ». It turned harsh conditions in dramatically; he does not want to stay here, as the Greeks do not want to be in this country also, however, it is almost impossible for him to leave the country.
The video clips bright presented by the Tourism Council of the Greek in the rings fantastic in Metro stations Athens imagine Committee pastoral pretty involved in a little personality, with living suffocating suffered by Asim, where he lives, five of them in a room in the suburb of specific features for a period of six months in the city. Asim told me (with a laugh mocking the whole situation) that «it is always my desire to travel. Only I did not want to travel at all in this image ».
10 months ago, did not travel Asim and his family outside Damascus. However, the devastating air raid that has been waged on their region in December (December) last forced them to sell their home and belongings and their car, and start the trek under the responsibility of people smugglers. At the present time, the family scattered across Europe Asim, where there are his mother and sisters in Germany, while his father lives in Turkey, and his aunts and aunts live in Sweden, while his maternal uncles and uncles residing in Denmark.
He adds Asim saying: «In the beginning, we went to Lebanon and stayed there for one month, then we applied for Tachiratna to enter Turkey. After that, we traveled to Istanbul. I liked the place there, and I wanted residence, and found a job graphic designer, but she wanted my family to come to Europe, and I had to go down on their desire; You know how strong family ties in the Middle East, where the members of our family bound together by strong bonds ».
With the increase in unit war in Syria, diminished options for people wishing to escape out of the country. In southern Turkey, met with two girls from Latakia, began a new life in Egypt, before Tdtara to leave Egypt again after the removal of the President Morsi and a heightened state of hostility against the Syrians. Worse still, that the Republic of Cyprus has recently announced that they will not let the Syrians walk across the border again. Also, he discovered a Syrian friend, lives and works in Turkey, there is no in front of him at the moment, only nine countries in the entire world could travel to a vacation without a visa. «Moreover, I need a visa to enter Somalia», said Asim, which in the case of the surrender of recreation for himself.
The only option available to most Syrians who want to go to Europe represented in going to Greece illegally. Once they enter there, you can not force them to leave the country, where they are granted political asylum, and be allowed to apply for residency, but there is no escape from applying from abroad, and therefore, do not have to travel to Europe via the network mysterious smugglers is the last resort to get there, but it is the only option available. I have followed the family Asim itinerary being followed by many, but their story reveal how it was risky journey can not predict its outcome.
The first plan is to buy fake passports of a people smugglers, with the use of these passports to travel from Istanbul to anywhere else in Europe. Asim explains this, saying: «They are looking for someone who seems to like you. Some of the funds are granted to the person who owns a passport, and waiting for 30 days until a reported theft of these passports. However, that price is customary for the passport stolen in Istanbul up to 8000 dollars, and the family can not afford to pay those expenses. Therefore, there was no need in front of the family but to resort to the second option ».
He adds Asim said: «Some advised to travel by boat to Athens, where they see that this method is much easier than air travel from the airport there. Therefore, we have held a deal with smugglers, where he took $ 1000 from each and every one of us, and told us that there will be a bus take us to the coast at four in the morning. From this place, we will take the boat to Greece ».
The clarity with which retrieves from which Asim details that journey reveals to us the extent to which printed this journey in his mind beyond the border. Asim says: «They organize those trips to pursue such a method. The boat is a rubber boat, but the lower part of it is made of wood. Therefore, women and children sit in the heart of the boat, while the men sit above the piece of rubber around the outside. The length of the boat six meters, and was on board Forty people ».
In the light of the moon, Asim already managed to see the Greek island that they are turning to it, even when he stood on the shores of Turkey. I've looked island very close to the point that I think that are accessible will take only 10 minutes. Getaway did not come with them, but people knew how to drive a boat ». Asim added: «did not pay that person's only half the required amount, but it is a big risk. In the case of the arrest you, you will be condemn that person as if he was the getaway ». They were unsure of it will be arrested. Did not trip takes 10 minutes, but it lasted for two hours.
Asim was sure that he will be spotted by Coast Guard vessels, while traveling at night in the direction of Greece under the shade of the sky Menkhah clouds. He was perched on the chest Asim fate of some former passengers who set sail for the night, where some of them fell in the area in the frigid waters of the sea in the month of February and drowned. Asim says: «I'm still surprised by the success of that trip».
26 people traveled from the family members of Asem to Greece, but his father was not among these people, the killing of his brother in the air raid, which was launched in December (December), and his father remained in Damascus to relieve his mother and condolences. At the present time, under constant bombardment and siege of the area by Assad's forces, he left his father and also Syria, which is currently stuck in Turkey waiting for his chance to make the trip the same boat and catch up with the rest of his family members. He adds Asim saying: «I've already tried that and my dad is the journey four times, but each time, he was to be arrested and sent back. I think they have now increased Coast Guard vessels on the Turkish and Greek sides. Succeed boat and only one out of every five or six boats in transit. And my father will try again next week ».
The plan represented the family to travel to Sweden. Asim explains, saying: «I went the rest of my family members there first. The idea was that I my brother and I Snsavr there later », and the smugglers were paid 3,000 euros for each person in order to obtain false passports to leave Greece, however, that the family did not have enough money for each of its members. But the mother of Asim and his sisters were Toukifan discovery and ordered them while moving in between flights in Germany.
According to EU rules, you should apply for asylum in the first country to reach him. Therefore, they had to stay in Germany, despite not knowing anyone there, as well as their inability to speak the German language.
The on Asim and his brother now that play a waiting game, as long as they are trying to get out of Greece. I have already tried to get out of Greece but failed four times when used for fake passports. Each time, ordered them to be discovered and repatriated. With the end of the tourism season and the lack of passengers at airports, it becomes more rigorous security screening, as prices rise demanded by smugglers. Asim finished drinking his coffee and left the place to meet his contact point to see another rate prices. Asim and tell me, saying: «The money is running out with us, as we have already spent all the money that we have collected from the sale of the house and the car».
Asim adds: «The next day, the person sending the e-mail message to me, asked me where 5,500 euros for each individual. And every time the price rises ».
In spite of the desperate position, he was able to show a spirit of humor tinged with bitterness and wrote: «address today: I will die in Athens».
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