Meet Aymen
©Pamela Kerpius/Migrants of the Mediterranean
by:
Pamela Kerpius
Recorded:
30 October 2017
Published:
November 2017
Revised:
1/10/25
Meet Aymen.
28 years old and from Tunisia.
He is not pictured and his name has been changed to protect his identity.
To reach Lampedusa he crossed the Mediterranean Sea on a boat that spent 20 hours on the open water before he landing in Lampedusa. It was October 2017.
The rest of the details of his journey are omitted to protect his identity because he is in danger from the Tunisian government and will be beaten and abused, he said, if he is sent back to their custody.
He wants to go “any place where I have rights, any place I can be happy.”
Aymen is an amazing human being.