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Migrant crisis: Afghan boy's lonely start ∈Germany
By Nassim Hatam - BBC News, Munich
By Nassim Hatam - BBC News, Munich
[1] Munich station has become the destination for tens of thousands
[2] of people taking the migrant route from the Balkans, and
[3] Germany has reimposed border controls ∈ an attempt to slow the
[4] influx down.
[5] Many of those arriving are children who have travelled long
[6] distances without their families. One was Ali, a 15-year-old
[7] unaccompanied Afghan boy from Kabul, who got off the train ∈
[8] Munich, at the end of an arduous journey by land and sea.
[9] He had come with a group of young friends from Afghanistan, all
[10] of them apparently without their families. They had travelled
[11] overland to Turkey, then by boat to Greece, across the Western
[12] Balkans to Austria, finally reaching Germany.
[13] Tired and hungry, he went to the bathroom, but when he came
[14] out, his friends were nowhere to be seen ∈ the chaos and milling
[15] crowds ∈ the station. Suddenly, he found himself completely
[16] alone, unable to speak German, or any other language that
[17] officials could understand.
[18] Eventually he gathered up the courage to approach police
[19] guarding tents set up by the German Medical Disaster Relief
[20] Agency. The police began looking for a Farsi speaker, and this
[21] was where I became involved.
[22] Ali was given a basic medical check-up and offered food and
[23] water. He was still shaking. Staff and volunteers wrapped a
[24] blanket around his shoulders and tried to calm him down. "I am
[25] scared of the police, I am scared they will send me back to
[26] Afghanistan", he said, crying. Fear and fatigue were clearly
[27] visible ∈ his eyes.
[28] Soon, a social worker from the youth welfare office arrived and
[29] drove Ali to Haus 7, a refugee reception centre dedicated to
[30] unaccompanied minors. More than 10,000 unaccompanied
[31] refugee children live ∈Germany, many of them from Afghanistan
[32] and Syria.
[33] On the way to Haus 7, Ali gradually became calmer, and listened
[34] with fascination to the social worker talking to the lranian taxi
[35] driver ∈German. "This language sounds so strange and
[36] different", he said. "I would love to be able to speak it one day."
[37] When the social worker told him he would be given German
[38] lessons, a smile appeared on Ali's face for the first time since his
[39] arrival ∈Munich.
(Retrieved and adapted from http://www.bbc.com/news/worId-europe-34213673. Access on September 20“, 2015)
Answer questions according to Text 2.
The pronouns who (line 5) and them (line 10) refer, respectively, to:
