The case ended with applause. Rob Lawrie has copped as 1,000 euros fine suspended sentence for endangering the small Bahar Ahmadi 4 years, trying to make it to England, with the agreement of his father, met in the jungle. The hearing had begun turned in a packed audience of supporters and activists. “I know it was irrational, stupid. I was emotionally exhausted. The night was cold, “ says Rob Lawrie in court. “We were around the fire, and she fell asleep on my lap. His father had asked me several times to take him to his family in Leeds, 3 or 4 miles from my home. I could not leave her there. I’m sorry “
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The Columbia 49 year old from the outskirts of Leeds, in northern England, father of four, was found Jan. 14 in the Boulogne-sur-Mer for having tried to go to England Bahar, a small 4 year old Afghan who lived in the “jungle” of Calais. After months of back and forth in the slum where he built shelters of wood and canvas with the exiles, he slipped the little girl, who knew him well, 24 October 2015 in a hiding place in his van. The man, who is defined as a “unemployed carpet cleaner who volunteers,” acknowledges the facts and risk five years in prison and 30,000 euros fine. Hours before the hearing, during an improvised press conference in the rectory of Saint-Martin-Boulogne, he defended with ease: “In the 50s in the US, it was illegal for blacks and whites sitting side by side. And now we say “What joke!” One day they will say, “Oh my God, a time they left the children in squalid refugee camps, and they were not going to school”, “ At the bar of the High Court of. Boulogne, it seems overwhelmed, searching for words. Rob Lawrie is bipolar elsewhere. He was placed in homes to 6 years. “At the time, I would have liked someone to come to my rescue.”
“I could see his desperation to not be able to give a better life to her daughter “
In the courtroom, in second place, Reza Ahmadi, a broken leg, is there with his daughter Bahar, second, the little plays on a shelf in pink pants and blue sweater marine, snuggled between his father and a British volunteer. She whispers to herself, quiet as a child playing: “The police come, we must be saved. The police must catch us. We must run. “
On October 24, it is 11:35 p.m. when the utility is controlled at the ferry terminal. Police dogs detect a presence, Eritreans were hidden in the back. They tell police she saw the camp’s outskirts van, and it be hidden five hours without the knowledge of Rob Lawrie. Britain has stopped, guard hard view. Around 2 am it cracks, and confess that a little girl is hidden above the driver’s seat, in a converted cache berth, 1.30 to 50 centimeters. When the police opened the cache, the small sleeping.
At the hearing, he said he has a trust relationship with the father, he told him Bahar, it must give the child to her cousins and her grandmother . “I saw the despair of not being able to give a better life to her daughter. At each of my ten or twelve round trips, I saw them. That night, I could not leave her there. “
” I did not think I should have “
It ensures that it has not receive any money. “There is no question that I do this kind of thing for money. She is 4 years old, she is very smart, she lives in a tent in a dangerous and very cold place. “ The president speaks to him of” endangerment “,” transport conditions “. Lawrie: “If I had not had a sleeping compartment, if I had traveled in a car I would not have imagined to do. It was very comfortable. She was safe. “
When the prosecutor suggested to sentence Lawrie to 1000 euro fine for” endangering the lives of others, “a part of the room, full chock activists and supporters, boos. Lawrie repeat: The prosecutor said sensitive to the distress of exile, but advocates of “disgraceful conditions of the passage,” a “set” I did not think I should have. ” endangering the lives of others “: ” We can not do anything. She had no seatbelt, no booster provided by law, in case of frontal impact, it became a shot that crashed against the windshield. His life was in danger. “ Whoops in the room. “What’s going on?” Bahar whispers his father. Lawrie says he was moved by the photo of the little Aylan, in August, offers convevoir shelter on her kitchen table, dropped his carpet cleaning box against the advice of his wife, and without consulting begins back and forth to Calais in September
In his testimony, Christian Salome, president of the association of migrant hostel explained to the court. “ There are 5000 people in the jungle, which 500-600 children, including newborns. Until last Monday, there was nothing to shelter fathers with child unless the huts of the jungle, we can compare the comfort of a garden shed. Children live in the cold and wade in the mud. It’s hard to remain unmoved. To give food and then go home. These children the age of our grandchildren. I understand the gentleman who at some point failed to leave her there. Relationships are born, it is characteristic of humans. “ In the courtroom, Bahar has done with the tablet, she plays with a Christmas ball on goal with a stick.
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