Always rings EU countries, the distribution at sea of rescued refugees. Germany has so far received 225 people. The Libyan woman Nesrein is one of them. The DW has taken.
360 days it took, until Nesrein was able to build on its twelve square meters on the outskirts of Lübeck, a new life. The day she left her violent husband in Tripoli, knows you exactly: It was the 6. April 2018. Over the Mediterranean sea they came from Libya to Europe. Now she lives for five months in a small container room.
A bed for you, one for your seven-year-old son Zizo – the room is too narrow to put them side by side. To Zizos bed at the end of a few of the stuffed animals, under the beds, the suitcase next to the other. On the wall: narrow lockers for a few items of clothing. In addition, a barren table for the homework. It’s not much, but Nesrein feels safe: “I’ve been looking for a better future. The journey across the sea was rough. But in the end it was a Transition into a new life.”
It is people like Nesrein, the European States are not in agreement. Private vessels, such as the “Sea-Watch 3” or the “Alan Kurdi” rescue in the Mediterranean, with the aim of a European port to be controlled. Of course many southern European countries such as Italy or Malta became harder after the European Union has left them with the Problem alone. For the 19th century. September, the EU plans to hold a special meeting to finally find a solution for the distribution of the migrants.
Nesrein inhabited a room in a refugee accommodation with her son, the bathroom and the kitchen you have to share
Nesrein entered at 9. January European soil. After 19 days on the “Sea-Watch 3” had declared that Malta is willing to let the 32 migrants on Board in the country. It was the provisional end of an Odyssey for Nesrein. All the eight Times she tried together with her son, to cross the Mediterranean sea until the “Sea-Watch 3” took them on Board. Five Times the attempt failed already in the country. The police and the coast guard prevented the migrants could even be a boat.
Two Times they made it out into the water. Once the boat broke up after five minutes, another Time they drove 28 hours on the open sea, to a Libyan coast the boat that took them back to the country. Nevertheless, Nesrein have never thought of giving up: “to try It at all, was better than the life we were running away from. The decision of the son in death my bring danger, was very difficult. But I would rather that we die together, than that we return to a terrible life.”
Escape from domestic violence
A life that was dominated by her husband. With 24 years of married Nesrein in Tripoli. It wasn’t long until her husband hit her for the first Time. Nesrein hoped that it would be better, but with each year the Situation worsened. The years since the birth of her son were no longer to be endured. Once her husband had dug a grave for her son. To escape since decided Nesrein, took all the money of her husband she could find. “In Libya, it is unthinkable to get a divorce,” she says. “In my country there are no freedoms for women.”
From the coastal town of Sawija from, 50 kilometers West of Tripoli, she was able to finally escape in the direction of Europe. In a white boat – actually too bright for the moon-clear night in December. “We had to several times turn off the engine, in order not to be discovered,” says Nesrein. For the migrants on Board one question above all: Who will you find? A plane in the sky, they eventually made find. It is the “Sea-Watch 3” and discovered the boat on the open sea first.
The 7-year-old Zizo now goes to school and learns English
Germany belongs to the countries which declare themselves again and again ready, Mediterranean migrants. From government circles, it is said, over 60 cities have signaled that they would receive refugees. Including the smaller cities of Maintal in Hesse, but also in the larger provincial capitals such as Hanover. Since July of 2018, Germany has recorded 225 migrants aboard private vessels. Depending on the Mission, it was more or less – the highest number came to the Mission, was also Nesrein face. Taken together with the migrants on Board the “Professor Albrecht Penck” took Germany 55 people.
The Federal Ministry of the interior declared that all migrants who came via the Mediterranean, to be first examined medically and a security check to go through. A small request from the party “The Left” showed that several are like migrants through the security check. “To us, however, it is important to emphasize that we said the number also had to adhere to,” says a BMI spokesman Steve age. So far, Germany has departed from the agreed number. This means: Promise Germany, for example, 35 migrants, going to the met also. A refugee does not withstand the Checks, moves to another. It is first called a number, how many migrants would take Germany. Only then will more closely looked to see who it was.
As Libyans on the run
The 33-Year-old Nesrein is in many ways an exception: she is a Libyan woman, a woman, well-educated. Most of the migrants on the ships, and the men from sub-Saharan Africa. Of the 32 migrants who brought the “Sea-Watch 3” with her to the country, there was, except Nesrein three other women.
In December 2018, the “Sea-Watch 3” Nesrein and Zizo, together with 30 other migrants on Board
Meanwhile, Nesrein arrived in your new life in Germany. Zizo goes to school, the two have received a one-year residence permit. Nesrein want to learn German, and in your profession as a medical assistant work. “I want to be a normal citizen, pay taxes. Germany has invested in me and I would like to give something back,” she says.
Until then, it seems to be a long way. The Container of the refugee accommodation are far outside of the city, encircled by construction sites and abandoned fields. An old funfair car weathered side of the road. Still Nesrein, bathroom and kitchen shared with other refugees, her own apartment she has. The beautiful brick houses and dreamy promenades on the banks of lübeck seem like a different world next to the container settlement. Nevertheless, Nesrein love living here, close to the sea. In spite of a shipwreck and Drifting on the open sea, the water caused her no fear. “The sea reminds me of all the problems,” she says. But it had also been her only way to lead now a life in safety.