"The Italian agents encouraged us to come to France. We said, ye may go." The sealed testimony was Love, 25, Tunisian fleeting passage by the Italian island of Lampedusa and now 'paperless' just landed in Paris. The French capital is the third stop on a long journey of escape that began three months ago.
"I left my country because I had fear of repression, violence, but also because there was no work. I decided the day that I realized that before the crisis could buy bread at any time of day and after noon there was nothing left, "says the refugee. Love (fictitious name chosen by himself) is one of the immigrants 'bounced' from Italy to France and one of the "guilty" of the diplomatic conflict between the two countries, worried about the flood of immigrants from Libya and Tunisia arrived in their territory .
The governments of both countries believe that we must accept all the refugees of the riots. But neighbor's home. The Tunisian and two brothers have suffered in the flesh this policy of 'behind closed doors at home, open the next door. " The three borrowed money to get out of a burning Tunisia aboard a clandestine boat.
Three days and two nights after his departure, the Italian coast guard rescued from the sea. "We exhausted, we took a long time without eating. We were taken to a shelter for us to regain and then some were arrested and others not, but I do not know why, "he says. He says that immigrants who were in the spaces depended on the Italian state were left out, something that did not happen with those in privately run facilities, "Do not let them leave until they reached new groups.
Some people take two months locked in a detention center. Many of my countrymen had fled from prisons in Tunisia and found locked again. Say they prefer the sound of the shrapnel and the war at home to confinement in Italy. "Identical testimony and share Lahzan scale. His voice told over the airwaves the first killed in the streets of Tbilisi.
The microphone, he says, was never freedom in Tunisia. Before the revolution, nor later. "There has never been a democracy in my country. When the riots began lit a flame of hope, but then when I had to leave, I realized that the situation will not change overnight, "he says. This radio broadcaster paid 10 times the equivalent the minimum wage in Tunisia (1600 dinars) to escape threats.
The regime wanted to silence those who, like him, were telling the world the seeds of the Arab spring. "It's very sad what is happening, especially in Libya . Although our countries have been hostile, Libyans and Tunisians are now a cafe 'au lait "(coffee with milk), we are all mixed together", he says.
For him, France is' liberté, égalité, Fraternité', although his arrival to the 'promised land' has not been easy. His journey to Italy was even more bizarre than his compatriot. Lahzar went through several different sites: from Lampedusa to Brindisi, Brindisi to Sicily. "The last center was among nothing.
There was only half. They wanted to stay as far away as possible from the city. I do not think they wanted us will relate to people and we were close to the cities. I left because I felt trapped Tunisia and Italy the same thing happened to me, "says this journalist." I spent the day standing in queues.
There were queues for food, queue for the bathroom, tail for dinner ... Until more and decided I could not leave. "When you buy your ticket with no return to Paris, nobody put impediments. Of course, in the train of the flight was arrested for not paying the ticket. 
"I left my country because I had fear of repression, violence, but also because there was no work. I decided the day that I realized that before the crisis could buy bread at any time of day and after noon there was nothing left, "says the refugee. Love (fictitious name chosen by himself) is one of the immigrants 'bounced' from Italy to France and one of the "guilty" of the diplomatic conflict between the two countries, worried about the flood of immigrants from Libya and Tunisia arrived in their territory .
The governments of both countries believe that we must accept all the refugees of the riots. But neighbor's home. The Tunisian and two brothers have suffered in the flesh this policy of 'behind closed doors at home, open the next door. " The three borrowed money to get out of a burning Tunisia aboard a clandestine boat.
Three days and two nights after his departure, the Italian coast guard rescued from the sea. "We exhausted, we took a long time without eating. We were taken to a shelter for us to regain and then some were arrested and others not, but I do not know why, "he says. He says that immigrants who were in the spaces depended on the Italian state were left out, something that did not happen with those in privately run facilities, "Do not let them leave until they reached new groups.
Some people take two months locked in a detention center. Many of my countrymen had fled from prisons in Tunisia and found locked again. Say they prefer the sound of the shrapnel and the war at home to confinement in Italy. "Identical testimony and share Lahzan scale. His voice told over the airwaves the first killed in the streets of Tbilisi.
The microphone, he says, was never freedom in Tunisia. Before the revolution, nor later. "There has never been a democracy in my country. When the riots began lit a flame of hope, but then when I had to leave, I realized that the situation will not change overnight, "he says. This radio broadcaster paid 10 times the equivalent the minimum wage in Tunisia (1600 dinars) to escape threats.
The regime wanted to silence those who, like him, were telling the world the seeds of the Arab spring. "It's very sad what is happening, especially in Libya . Although our countries have been hostile, Libyans and Tunisians are now a cafe 'au lait "(coffee with milk), we are all mixed together", he says.
For him, France is' liberté, égalité, Fraternité', although his arrival to the 'promised land' has not been easy. His journey to Italy was even more bizarre than his compatriot. Lahzar went through several different sites: from Lampedusa to Brindisi, Brindisi to Sicily. "The last center was among nothing.
There was only half. They wanted to stay as far away as possible from the city. I do not think they wanted us will relate to people and we were close to the cities. I left because I felt trapped Tunisia and Italy the same thing happened to me, "says this journalist." I spent the day standing in queues.
There were queues for food, queue for the bathroom, tail for dinner ... Until more and decided I could not leave. "When you buy your ticket with no return to Paris, nobody put impediments. Of course, in the train of the flight was arrested for not paying the ticket.
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