West beats east for refugees


The Kadib Alban family and Christel Deutsch (right) in Deutsch’s home in Daun, Germany. — Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times

SABRI Kadib Alban needed seven tries to cross from Turkiye to Greece after fleeing Syria, and five more to reach Italy. He lost 13kg.

After six months, he arrived in Germany, drawn by the promise of good schools for his children, landing in the small western town of Daun.

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