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Would you risk your life traveling by boat to Europe?

This question is raised in the first episode of the Surprising Europe TV Series: Coming to Europe. Would you risk your life to get to Europe, and why?

Alain_Ditdat

Holland
Joint 22 Jul 2011
3 comments
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Friday 22 Jul 2011 17:24 h

it is hard to say.. I have not experienced what is going through the people that do that. judging from the situations they go through, will say that i would have done the same..

Dream2011


Joint 2 Sep 2011
0 comments
0 stories
Friday 2 Sep 2011 18:39 h

BOAT TRIP TO EUROPE

NO,I WILL NEVER RISK MY LIFE FOR THAT. IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IS IT LIKE IN EUROPE YOU MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO,BUT IF YOU ARE PRIVILAGE TO BE INFORMED BY SOME ONE THEN YOU MUST REALY LISTERN,I WILL NEVER RISK IT.

kandy

Russia
Joint 21 Sep 2011
3 comments
0 stories
Wednesday 21 Sep 2011 18:22 h

why should i risk my life to suffer again

Etty

Holland
Joint 9 Mar 2012
10 comments
1 stories
Tuesday 27 Mar 2012 13:41 h

Going to Europe often means risking your life

And I mean not only very risky boat trips. There are many other risks, too... What I am going to tell is not a Nigerian soap opera, it is, unfortunately, a true story. My acquaintances, husband and wife, born in Europe into immigrants'  families, work for a religious charity which helps homeless people (many of them illegal immigrants). They can tell many really terrible stories about naïve people who think that 'hamburgers grow on trees in Europe'  and end up as homeless beggars. I saw one of these homeless beggars in the streets of a big city several times. The man's name was Aron, and he spoke the language of the region from which my father had come. He was easy to notice because of his exotic clothes, too. Though I am poor myself, I always gave him a euro or two. According to my acquaintances from the charity, he had a passport of another non-European country, but the passport was not valid anymore. About six months ago, Aron hurt his foot and a bad inflammation began. The people from the charity offered that they take him to one of the places where people ask for refugee status. Aron's chances to get refugee status were next to zero, but, at least, he could get free of charge medical aid, once he was registered as an asylum seeker. He needed a surgical operation, and a serious one. In the shelter run by the charity, they could not arrange for such a surgical operation.  Aron refused and preferred to live in the street: he was afraid that, if he applied for asylum, he would be deported to his native land or to the land where he had lived before coming to Europe. About two weeks later, the people from the charity found him in a street, more dead than alive. He passed away a few hours later.  The people from the charity buried him in a small Dutch village, in a nice picturesque place. That was the last thing they could do for him.

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