The relief written in her face. The refugee assistant Sarah Mardini is after three months of detention in Greece, back in Berlin. However, the relief follows uncertainty. Florian Becker, Director of Bard College Berlin, is pleased to announce its student back. “Unfortunately, this is not the end of the story,” says Becker. Mardini is on bail, the indictment was not dropped.
Overall, it is calculated against the 30 Volunteers of the non-governmental organization ERCI. You people smuggling, laundering, money, membership in a criminal network, as well as espionage against the port police are accused of. The lawyer, Zacharias Clever assured the innocence of the accused. ERCI have withheld information, never and always with the port police cooperates. “It attempts to criminalize all non-governmental organisations, and to remove it from the Lesvos”, so Clever.
Mardini, and her close friend Sean Binder, was also imprisoned in Athens, can’t understand the accusations. “We have to leave our friends and families, good education opportunities, and our comfortable home, to work 24 hours a day. That’s not fair,“ said Mardini. Also, Binder is stunned: “There is nothing wrong with that, to help people, to save them from the water or to show children how you kids can be.”
“The worst thing is to sit in the dark”
Mardini and Binder worked to Lesvos, first as a lifeguard, supplied the refugees with water and Cover. On the island there are currently three refugee camps. “The real heroes are the Refugees and not us.” She knows what she is talking about. In 2015, she had fled with her sister Yusra Mardini itself from Syria.
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to order your time in prison, the two helpers ready. In Lesvos, Mardini was imprisoned, first in a very small space with a total of three beds. “My bed was to my living room, my kitchen and my bedroom.” To the bathroom, had to ask every Time for permission. “It was humiliating.” After two weeks, Mardini has been brought in an Athenian prison. There, they would have bridged the time, especially with books and reading and replying to countless letters. Binder adds: “The worst thing is to sit in the dark and to be able to all the time not to go out.” In rooms with 30 beds have been partially 70 inmates. Many slept on the floor.
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comes with a Deposit free of The news about their release staggered Mardini in pure joy. “I couldn’t believe it to me outside, finally alone again to move,” she says. Their future remains uncertain. Mardini would now like to return to your school, the Bard College. And she is determined to continue to support the refugees. The months before the arrest had been the best of your life. “I would like to encourage people to keep going, you must not be afraid of volunteering.” The island of Lesvos is not allowed to enter, however, for seven years.