Lamine (Montero / Top Manta representative)

It's the first time in the world that a union of people without papers have achieved what we've done in a few years.

I was in the same situation as all the African youth who, at the age of 18, have to work and support their families and don't have the opportunity to do so.

Fishermen used to use their boats to fish for a week or three days.

They would return with lots of fish.

But now, there are European boats fishing in our seas using bombs and nets.

They've screwed up the whole sea, and now there is no fish.

Many fishermen have decided to transport people coming here to Europe.

I arrived here and they didn't consider at all what I had lived through at sea.

pain, hunger, the obstacles that I had to overcome.

And for the first time, they put me in handcuffs and threw me in a cell without having committed any crime and no reason.

When they tell you you're not going to be deported and they're going to let you live here, the police give you papers that say you have a three-year exclusion.

That means you're in Spain, but it's like you're not in Spain.

The first one is going to work in the fields.

The second one is work as a junkman, looking for metal to sell.

Another path is a very bad path that we don't want to choose.

It's selling drugs.

And the fourth one is selling on the streets.

When you pull the rope, the next thing you do is run as fast as possible.

The first version from the police was that a comrade jumped off his balcony.

When his friends saw him, they noticed that his hands were handcuffed behind his back.