France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Read: Fabio Geda, "In the sea there are crocodiles - The true story of Enaiatollah Akbari" (fr, it, pt)

 (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Read: Fabio
Geda, "In the sea there are crocodiles - The true story of Enaiatollah
Akbari" (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

Fabio Geda is an educator in Turin. It is in an intercultural center of this same city 
that he heard Enaiatollah Akbari tell the story of his journey from young Afghan migrant. 
The meeting resulted in the writing of this biographical novel written in the first 
person. ---- In a simple, direct writing, so we discover the life of a child 10 years or 
maybe 11, himself does not know. Member of persecuted ethnic Hazaras. Her mother abandons 
one morning at the Pakistani border, the only way to protect it. ---- The trip will last 
several years, his native village to Italy. It will pass through Iran, Turkey and Greece. 
A description of many of the hell of border crossings organized by smugglers, migrants 
packed like goods in the double bottom of a trailer for hours or tight on precarious 
dinghies. Of course there is the fear of crossing the road police, everywhere and always, 
beats, humiliates, refers to the border or in detention camps whose reputation is chilling 
migrants.

Wherever he stops, we see how it is often easy to find happy bosses to employ a workforce 
"illegal" solidarity is particularly strong and can often overcome trials. We'll see the 
child a server time, another dealer on the run or stonemason. It will follow on the site 
of the Athens Olympic Games, along with hundreds of other undocumented workers, where for 
once the police will especially not slow down the work. In a daily doing, fear and 
brutality, so assistance is another example of the experiences of thousands of people 
whose only desire that stop running one day, just to live in dignity. An informative, 
poignant story which, without lapsing into pathos, strengthens the desire to fight for a 
world free of racism, exploitation and borders.

The book has sold nearly 200,000 copies in Italy. Fabo Geda sees encouraging success for 
the cause of migrants: "Migrants are at the heart of the XXI century. In this book, I 
showed their courage, strength and determination, but also the courage of all those who 
refuse to see them as a threat, rather than trying to help them. Without them, the young 
Enaiatollah would never have succeeded with their demanding and dangerous journey. "

Benjamin (U Nantes)

Fabio Geda In the Sea there are Crocodiles - The true story of Enaiatollah Akbari, Liana 
Levi Publishing, 176 pages, 8.50 euros.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-Fabio-Geda-Dans-la-mer-il-y-a