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\u201cEvery year more people drown while crossing the Channel. In 2024, as many as in the previous six years combined.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are in Calais. A city with 76,000 inhabitants and 1,200 police officers. A city where every 48 hours, an insane police force destroys the places where people sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s bullying. Malicious harassment. Dehumanizing. Get lost, go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A city where everyone without papers is homeless. A city where people lose hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the late afternoon, we\u2019re standing on a large field. There\u2019s a game of football going on. Two boys sit by the water tank \u2014 just refilled by the organization we\u2019re here with \u2014 washing their shoes. Two other boys are watching the game. Aron kicks a ball around with Gabriel. He\u2019s so young it hurts. On the field stands a huge trailer, inside are tents where 400 people sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laundry flutters on the barbed wire. A bitter image of hope and despair in one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything you see here is a layered reality. Seeing things, knowing what you\u2019re not seeing, and sensing \u2014 when you place yourself in the shoes of that boy whose eyes light up when he plays football with a ball that\u2019s far too soft \u2014 feelings you don\u2019t want to feel, too much heard, seen, experienced. So young, younger than my own boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s strange \u2014 walking around in this madness during the day, that\u2019s doable. But then, in the evening, back in the hotel room, the awareness sinks in of what I\u2019ve actually seen. And I think about 95 amoral MPs and 1,200 police officers who destroy things pointlessly, and these boys \u2014 who are just human, like you and me \u2014 but here are condemned to live among the trash, to be welcome nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine what that must feel like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is broken. I can\u2019t put it any other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If everywhere, all we can come up with is beating people away, stabbing boats (yes, that happens here too \u2014 in shallow water, it\u2019s even allowed), destroying their belongings every 48 hours with brute force \u2014 it\u2019s inhumane. And it\u2019s only getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally, I would now begin a tribute to the organizations here. And they absolutely deserve it, because what courage and grit it takes to keep providing people here with water, food, electricity, clothes \u2014 because otherwise they simply wouldn\u2019t have it<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But today, disgusting Dutch legislation runs parallel to a disgusting French reality. And that is unspeakably heartbreaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Period.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lianne Engelkes<\/a> <\/a>Manou Zonderland \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udf0d\ud83c\udf0f<\/a> <\/a>Aron Bosman<\/a> <\/a>Dirk Kome<\/a> <\/a>Bart Driessen<\/a> Haella Stichting<\/a> Fred Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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