Nigeria
Country
50
Age
7.04.2024
Rescue Date

My name is Djema. I’m from Nigeria.

It’s not easy in Libya. I stayed four years. You know when you move in the street, you are not safe. You’re inside a motor [car], you are not safe. You are at home, sleeping, you are not safe. Sometimes they will carry you, point a gun [at you], collect everything you have, throw you away. You can do nothing.

They don’t like black men at all. They call you “slave”. If you go to prison now, many Africans are there. Thousands!
Because they are trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.
No food, no treatment. Nothing, nothing. They suffer a lot. 

I decided that Europe is safer for me than Libya. Because Libya is not safe. 

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