Hiker Channel Tunnel gets asylum

Hiker Channel Tunnel gets asylum

World January 4, 2016 15:49

canterbury - A Sudanese man who managed to secure through the Channel Tunnel from France to walk to Great Britain, was granted asylum.


         A British prosecutor has it announced Monday. The man was arrested when leaving the tunnel. He is on trial for his crossing, but he might go unpunished now he can stay in Britain.
Haroun Abdul came on August 4 from the tunnel. He is the first known refugee who crossed the Channel Tunnel. He has probably done twelve hours on the journey of 50 kilometers through the dark. Along the way he had to step aside in time for high-speed trains thundering past.
Little is known about Haroun. He is about forty years old. He speaks the language of Darfur, a desert region in western Sudan. Arab militias, backed by the regime, there have been massacres among the original inhabitants.

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