09 Ibrahim

Ibrahim. 32 years old. Ivorian. | Ibrahim is exhausted. Now, he almost never leaves his container at the Red Cross camp in Ventimiglia. When his father died in 2006, he was dispossessed of his inheritance by his uncle. Without any resources, he was forced to stop studying law: “My destiny stopped. I had invested so much in my studies.” All his dreams and plans for the future were destroyed. The conflict with his uncle, and the spells he would send him, poisoned Ibrahim’s life and pushed him to leave. “Honestly, I didn’t really want to leave the country. Because I know a little about what adventure is really like. . . . I wanted to hold on, but unfortunately I couldn’t. . . . It was a decision that I made in despair. . . . To tell you the truth, I may have taken this path to Europe with only one objective in mind, to maybe die in the Mediterranean. Yes, maybe that could have put an end to all of this.” | Red Cross Camp, Vintimille - Italia 2017