Syrian refugee jailed for fleeing to the #Netherlands
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A Syrian refugee family from Aleppo stays under a shelter during a rainy day on March 8, 2014, at Uskudar in Istanbul. (Photo: AFP - Bulent Kilic)
A Syrian refugee who survived the tragedy in Lampedusa in October 2013 was jailed for six months Wednesday after he fled #Malta illegally. Omar Younes, 23, managed to flee Malta illegally on a boat and made it to the Netherlands where he was detained and sent back to Malta. He was one of the 200 migrants who survived the shipwreck 60 nautical miles south of Lampedusa on October 12. An estimated 200 migrants are believed to have perished in the tragedy. Of the surviving migrants, 143 were taken to Malta while 56 were taken to Lampedusa. read (...)