‘We are not criminals - get to know us’ - video Dailymotion

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Ibrahima Barry risked his life to get to Europe leaving his home in Guinea, coming through Mali, Niger, the Sahara Desert in Algeria and a life-or-death boat crossing from Morocco where he lost his best friend.   Following Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’ announcement the country will give legal papers to 900,000 undocumented migrants, CGTN Europe spoke to migrants to find out the reality of life as a migrant in Spain.   Read more ⬇️   https://tinyurl.com/mry59xj8

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00:00It was hard, complicated, really. I left Guinea when I was 14 years old, I went to several countries, then I went to the desert, then to the sea.

00:09And thank God I got here, I'm doing well, I have a job, I'm studying as much as I can, I'm not complaining.

00:14I'm trying to get ahead.

00:16I tried it several times and I had a best friend who became my best friend in the desert.

00:22We had an accident and he stayed in the sea there. We couldn't find him, he stayed here.

00:29And that's why I still don't know how to swim. I have that trauma in my head, I still don't know how to swim.

00:34We think that here is paradise, but in the end it's the other way around.

00:38I came with an idea, I got here and then I got hit by a bus and I tell you, no, the reality is completely different, it's not the same.

00:45So what I say to the people who are here, before coming, try to have a little study.

00:50A little study, to know how to read, to know what you want.

00:53And then here you keep studying, but if you come and you don't have any intellectual baggage, in the end it's complicated.

00:59Well, let's say goodbye. What is your message to the world?

01:02For the world, that immigrants are not criminals.

01:06That yes, we have our flaws and we are not perfect, but that we are not criminals.

01:10That they try to know us before judging us.

01:13That we have our flaws, but if they don't know, they're really going to be surprised.

01:18That they do as the people we are welcomed, that they try to know us, to listen to us, to support us.

01:23That in the end we are human beings like everyone else.

01:26That by helping us, we will have a better world.

01:29So nothing, a kiss and a greeting.

‘We are not criminals - get to know us’

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