it brings you to focus on what absolutely has been. the black museum in 45 minutes on d w. sometimes books are more exciting than real life. raring to break. it all. what if there's no escape. list. german street. in saudia. i'm from damascus syria i'm 17 years old. so yeah i lost my parents in the war that i 1st fled to turkey and was there for 4

months no 3 and i i was very angry in turkey because people there are extremely racist against syrians almost my entire family is dead so my one brother is all i have left he's in europe and i want to go to him. but i don't know when i can leave here. all that and also i'm waiting for permission and i know. i'm just another would. say you. know you. i'm not in any life in the camp is bad it's too full. some people take drugs or get drunk they're out of control. going. they hit us in our containers

a wrecked us. no windows the doors are broken out. i'm frightened especially at night but has the closer you get so cold that. we have hardly any drinking water. but in the evenings there is only cold water to shower. we all got sick. and there at the refugee reception center on the island of samarra lane a pep iraqi encounter such problems every day the psychologist works with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers the camp currently holds 3 times as many people as it was designed for the new people continue to arrive every day despite the balkan cargo having being closed the asylum seekers are not allowed to leave the island many have had to settle on the edges of the overfilled camp where they live under deplorable conditions lina pepper arche works for the greek n.g.o.s method rassi roughly translated that means to look after later once there were more helpers than

residents now almost all funds have stopped and hardly any help has remained met rousey only looks after miners separated from their families. medical care for years got its own little work weeks and there's a nice surprise today and if i may have passed martha met address it has sent us clothes and shoes that they may have made we asked for them a long time ago the market you know the best part of the core many things are lacking within the camp lina pepper arche goes to fetch one of her n.g.o.s translators to speak with the miners to keep them safe mehta drowsy has requested night of their faces or names are made public. young people come to see lane or even before she has made her way to their

containers where this young man from afghanistan apparently gave an incorrect age when he arrived at the reception center now laina pepper arche explains he will have to be examined by a doctor. often the my. miners here have been marked by their experiences they are lost and traumatized. economy almost but if the losses we've had suicidal children and lots of kids self harm by cutting themselves for instance what these are. they seek attention what is more school they want someone to come to them and careful and. not that excess or that all obviously it is what can we do to ensure that a miner who self harms doesn't seriously injure himself or even put his life at risk. even if that wasn't his intention and that's one of the bottom of the hospital. several of the boys want to get to central or northern europe some

even have fully formed plans and are well informed regarding their rights as unaccompanied minors because again miles. this should be dispositive this should make some. good place for i explained how many times are there tell you there are no free spaces right now in the mainland there are a lot of kids a lot of our michael but my of my nurse. who are without a say there. so i know but formulas greece only has proper accommodation for 1000 minus a further 2500 under-age asylum seekers live in camps some are in police custody many have relatives in central europe and want to join them there by law once a minor has been approved for family reunification greece has to send him or her to the receiving country within 6 months.

hardly any minors want to stay in greece especially not in the camps. and i. i'm all alone as a header why i think it might be easier to bear staying here if you had your family lived off but my parents are dead nor my expected to get out of here after 3 months at most and if i feel helpless there's nothing i can do to change matters what headers of. their house that i. want to know when you are forced to live in a camp like this one time passes far too slowly especially for a 17 year old with no money to buy or do anything. oh well every 3 days a boat brings food from the mainland meals are served straight from the fridge in the camp. and people have one and

a half liters of water to drink per day. one. that. many don't like the 3rd those who still have money often throw it away. attracting mice and rats. want them to work less. of us closer of course salvos have it's that mean i can leave it right then assume the most important thing for the e.u. would be to finance shelters for miners again it's worse than a boat in the top of that with e.m.i. who let me out so that children have a safe place to stay with proper food and access to health care. less if it is yes get of their 3rd all secondly the e.u. should pressure member states to at least speed up family reunification passes relax them from going out if there's

a child whose mother is in germany and that child has all the necessary documents to go to her but then it's inhumane. to make that child wait here for 6 months or more x. you mean astrid has already spent 3 months in turkey and made the life threatening journey across the aegean sea to greece. from africa and all the while the mother is waiting in germany many the ma-ma to it it should be possible to take no more than a month to find out where in europe a child's family is and to send that child to them immediately with a map of a child needs to be able to begin its new life straight away. but the countries many asylum seekers hope to reach someday are storming the application processes some refused to accept any asylum seekers leaving the migrants and refugees with no option other than waiting sometimes they wait an entire year

unprotected and at risk of violence. 43 boys 16 and 17 year olds live in this section of the camp from syria afghanistan pakistan the ivory coast and somalia you never know whole. around one month ago there was a serious incident. and the effort of his 70 caught the arabic speaking adults armed with crowbars sticks and fire broke into the mine is containers. they cost a lot of damage though you'll be big on a mess as the heart of it all and only on caspar some have yeah find out. what was the engine. that. this video was filmed by miners inside one of the containers at the time of the attack.

is the mother then we asked mom we have. again there by the time police arrived much had already been broken for maybe there were personal differences of the house religious tensions between the ethnic groups led to the clash with an aerial for it started off with minor things but culminated in lots of people rioting in the container with the kids from afghanistan stay was hit especially hard their beds the windows everything was destroyed by the fire of congress or another we found temporary accommodation for the children. now things have come down again and men were waiting for the repair costs to be approved. the containers need to be replaced all renovated up us up and we have biggest problem is that the windows are broken and that means the boys are exposed to cold and rain so now they have put blankets across the windows to protect themselves at this over to test.

their. he says he struck the container and in the process injured his hands and leg because he's been waiting here for his papers for 6 months already and feels nobody is doing anything to help all of the procedures take a long time get here to get a self. in the. zoo more men now less for one limb or. these children are from war zones or sometimes they're aggressive or sometimes they're incredibly patient. yet isn't there goes on a story when they talk about their dead parents or their dead siblings obama tax that destroyed their schools and homes and killed other kids from their neighborhood it's like they're describing a film with as

a boy. it's their way of distancing themselves as if they weren't part of their own story. and our own nor yet at the same time they can start crying because of a scratch or because their shoes are too big yeah it's as if he were hitting them twice or 3 times as hard. is the norm is the norm a list of some of the adult residents have abused this boy from syria a number of times. lena pepper archey went with him to the police 3 days ago a feel that if he were to recognize the knesset these men you don't have to lock yourself in the container. but don't go down to town alone in the same ones responsible to make sure you always have your cell phone on you. if something happens even if you can't talk try to call my number again the i'll come and find you in the camp straight away the vote against if i may have all the psychologist

can't be in the camp 27 back in town from teen unaccompanied minors under the age of 15 awaiting for her in a shelter run by her organization. in places sarmast lies just 1500 meters off the turkish coast on all the greek islands with refugee camps the situation is just as bad. the town vassie. back when the refugee crisis 1st began almost everyone on some most helped out since the controversial 2016 e.u. turkey deal came into effect less migrants are moving on to mainland europe and

they also want returning to turkey the once welcoming locals have begun to resent the agreement. the town has only 6500 residents while 2500 asylum seekers live in the camp overlooking fasc. people here are demonstrating for the camp above the town to be closed the protest was organized by some oss s o s a radical group whose members include far right residents and overwhelmed locals. they're demonstrating against the e.u. turkey deal. you don't think you must think you see here a priest from the greek orthodox church is also present as are several refugees they have joined the far right group because they share it's goal they want to get

off the island some most s.o.'s claims n.g.o.s are keeping asylum seekers on the island longer than necessary in order to make money the mood is tense. they know pepper arche has a measured outlook she says most residents of sa most are not against refugees still she has to protect her boys. the shelter for the under 15 year olds lies inside the city its location is kept secret no one is allowed to leave the shelter today. the past leading to a house in which a family could live a wish on a drawing made by a child within the shelter the psychologist lena pepper arche and the mehta draw see team help in every way they can but only 14 boys can live in their samar shelter those who are most traumatised and who could not possibly stay in the camp

the youngest boy who arrived here was only 2 years old he has been separated from his parents during their journey. their vehicles. in all the activity i don't think any mother would give her children to smugglers or let them go on an overcrowded dinky alice went to the rough sea i'm not times less their lives were in immediate danger now how the wish for the. o.p.'s will give them their that is why they take those risks. and sell all the. they have to be able to send their kids to europe. 88 of their fellow fine in their homelands people are persecuted or even killed 3. there is how is that if i were a mother i would choose hope as well that he only had to be there in the

shelter questions about personal histories and war experiences are forbidden for the safety of the boys this 15 year old is from syria. lived in the car for one month but you can't call that living. it's nothing like life here where we have a roof over our heads and sheltered. here they cook for us. and we were allowed to go to school. i'm learning english. people in the camp. the ngo runs for shelters in greece it would need 150 more to take in all of the unaccompanied minors in the country met address he used to have a 5th shelter in thessaloniki but it had to recently closed it because of

insufficient funds laina says greece doesn't have the means to provide asylum seekers with humane conditions we have a very scary thought that if grace is a condom me you know has been weak to 7 years now. the border not upstate he can't even guarantee food for its own children q.d.o.s. believe many young people are leaving for other countries to find work or either within a year of looking at that this or on to other continents yeah especially greek people between 20 and 35 often it's those who have university degrees who leave meaning we don't have enough skilled workers to refugees looking to build a new life here finding a job and home is really hard. meals are cooked for the children in the shelter as they have an official place of residence they can attend local schools and still

even these kids want to leave the island to join their families. or. i want to go to my brothers in sweden being kept here for 8 months but why. i don't mind going to school but i don't understand any greek. also i already went to school for 9 years in syria and they put me into an early grave here. certainly not a little. before i was taking kickboxing but the other children's parents complained because they did not want refugees in the class so i had to stop some greeks don't want me there we're stranded here and i don't know how to live. but i said i've been approached a number of times where people are so they can get me out of your illegal enough i can pay them and. i don't have to scared. that's dangerous. smugglers

aren't syrian. or city. in greece around 80 unaccompanied minors slip away from camps in shelters every month those who do get registered as missing some try to travel north by land or 5 a puerto patricide. others show up among the nearly 3000000 inhabitants of athens this boy is also syrian he's from aleppo 15 years old and living illegally in athens busy. i went to the port. there's a place where cars and trucks wait to board the ship that that's where i understood one truck start and my friend and i jumped under. the flats are you scape the island has been measured like but i was on course for 3 and a half months and i had thought how they know how to leave miners in that camp without protection. we were beaten almost every day by afghans or pakistanis when i

came to athens one month ago but it's tough for me i haven't had to sleep on the streets. but i want to go to germany to my brother and i and my uncle and. but. i feel scared an average wish i had all the talent. around her papers so i have to always be on the lookout for the police i don't want to be sent to jail for several months. but in answer ins unaccompanied minors feel they are closer to their go or that i don't want to wait anymore and don't trust the legal family reunification process they are however kept updated about their applications by ngo employees who meet them on officially and in case the legal family reunification process doesn't get them out of greece they can always turn to

the many smugglers in athens who sell fake passports to children or offer to smuggle them out via new illegal routes. the key meeting point is victoria square in the heart of athens for these children the square is a dangerous waiting room for going further north. there's an old man who lives by victoria square he's a foreigner with a greek passport as he approached my friend and me once and said i'll give you money if you come home with me. about the must we pushed him off and ran away the 1st know what i was on my way home when that happened to me under tory you square that i had at that event that. ready

everyone in athens knows what goes on after nightfall on the square. there are drug dealers and even under-age prostitution. this man has been making the rounds for hours and surveilling the boys is he a pimp or a perspective customer either way he won't have to play hardball if there is a minor looking to earn money to pay a smuggler. 117 year old from afghanistan who has been prostituting himself wants to talk to us but not near victoria square. he suggests one of athens quiet suburbs on the way there he tells us he lives in a camp close to the city with his 10 year old brother before they both had to sleep on victoria square. tell. all that while

i hate victoria square. there they are on every corner. not just greeks but men who speak to us in english too it's out of desperation. you're forced to do it for little money for $10.00 or 20 year olds at the most i need the money for food clothes and cigarettes. the old man who approaches are lost and lonely and they just want to feel physically close to someone. they're full of problems and diseases. my brother is only 10 years old. he doesn't have anyone here but me. i'm responsible for him i need to make sure he has what he needs. it really upsets me when he wants something and i'm not able to get it for him i'm so ashamed. i hate

myself for this disgrace i've built over myself. it's burning me out and i can't talk to anyone about it. we've spent too long in these desperate circumstances also in our. back consomme us once again from tanks the european border and coastal guard agency is bringing migrants to the island then a pap iraki will be informed whether there are any minus. or so is this us when it comes to diseases prevention is better more effective and less expensive than treatment will. be sick if that out they are also purity or a cure so pos korea then the same applies to the minus situation the faster we can help these children get out of the cancer and start integrating into society the earlier we can give them treatment to overcome the trauma they have experienced and

make them stronger again the better it will be also for the future of europe several days here because these children will be staying in europe they will not be going back to the bombs or. that look well this is a good little hook up the border but will you like working with. him so that you. guys. baca have.

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