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"Don't go to England", the 15-year-old recounts the horror he experienced during the dinghy journey to Britain

2023-03-19 13:24:13Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

"Don't go to England", the 15-year-old recounts the horror he

An Albanian spoke to the 'Daily Mail' from a cafe in Tirana after returning from the terrifying voyage to Britain with traffickers' dinghies.

The media writes that Florjan Dibra, like hundreds of others, wanted to realize his fantasies about the riches that can be made by working illegally in England, mainly encouraged by traffickers to increase their business.

The 15-year-old stayed for five months in England in a terrible experience according to him, while his message was:

'Don't go to Britain!'

He admitted that last August he lied to his parents that he was going abroad for a short period. But when he reached Belgium, he paid traffickers 4,500 euros to take him on the dinghy from France to Dover.


Without knowing many words of English, Florjani says that his days in England were among the loneliest.

"I was very sad there", says Florani, who like a typical immigrant from Albania had no intention of seeking asylum but hoped to work to earn money, as a mechanic or in a car wash in the Albanian communities created there.

His message to "not go to Britain" comes as the London government is passing the new immigration law which, among other things, states that unaccompanied minors, like Florjani, will be forcibly returned to the country.

At the end of school last season, Florjani had planned his departure. Lying to Sulejman and Valentina's parents, he said he was going to visit relatives in Belgium for ten days with his 18-year-old cousin.

"Many of my friends had gone to England to work, I also wanted to leave Albania to do the same. We went by bus from Tirana to Brussels and they got a hotel room at Marigold Apartments."

But police documents say the pair took a taxi a day later to the northern French coastal town of Dunkirk, where traffickers offer illegal dinghy crossings to England. Florjani says that he borrowed the money from relatives in Belgium and then about 40 people were packed into a raft, where there were Albanians, Arabs, Iranians and other refugees.

After arriving in Britain he says he was placed in a hotel by the authorities and then sent to stay with a British family, but he refused and sought help from his relatives in the northern city of Leeds, whom he did not identify. to protect them from criminal liability.

After contacting his family in Albania, the young man was persuaded to return, taking advantage of the authorities' offer of 3,000 pounds given to returnees to restart life in their country of origin, whatever their age, according to the Daily Mail.

He later expresses regret for the failed attempt:

"My hopes of working as a mechanic are gone and I also broke my mother and father's heart by leaving for England."


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