Independent | 29.12.2017
Exclusive: ‘I’d rather die in that sea than stay here or go home’: Migrants and would-be asylum seekers from across West Africa wait in Tangier for their turn to make dangerous crossing to Spain
Joe Wallen
At a small Senegalese restaurant hidden away in the depths of Tangier’s Old Town, a 28-year-old Sierra Leonean man with impeccable English tells The Independent about his “dream” of making the short sea crossing from Morocco to Spain.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a Moroccan man lurches into Amy’s Restaurant and lunges across the tables, swinging a firm blow at this reporter’s side, shouting as he does so: “Sympathisant de nègre”. The phrase needs little translation.