{"id":94655,"date":"2016-10-21T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesaint.abvent.com\/serie\/la-nuit-tombe-sur-leurope-2016\/"},"modified":"2020-11-04T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:36:14","slug":"night-falls-on-europe-2016","status":"publish","type":"serie","link":"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/en\/serie\/night-falls-on-europe-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Falls on Europe, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Night Falls on Europe<\/strong>, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

Samuel Bollendorff<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

In January 2016, in northern Greece, the borders closed, leaving 46,000 children, women and men, traumatized by war and exile, blockaded in Idomeni, in the middle of winter. Left in the rain and cold, in the middle of garbage and feces in front of the closed doors of Europe.<\/p>\n

There is no shortage of images that testify to these situations without provoking any change in the policies that make the shame of Europe. Public opinions disarmed, are certainly affected but not enough for the leaders to take account of the impulses of solidarity that can be expressed. Worse, they condemn them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

The images of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea that we have faced over the past few years unfortunately do not change nothing more. We saw it with the sudden, ephemeral, awareness of the horror following the publication of the image of Aylan Kurdi, child dead on September 2, 2015, lying on a beach in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Faced with the rise of populism, it is high time to re-sensitize the public to the reality of brutality, of the unbearable trauma experienced by these thousands of women, men and children, wandering on the roads of exile.<\/p>\n

It is our humanity that is played out in the European project\u2019s ability to protect them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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