Many Africans who have made their way to Europe are stranded in Tunisia. There they now get to feel the concentrated hatred. Impressions of a catastrophe that nobody wants to see.
“I’m glad to have escaped with my life,” says Zaccaria Cisse and takes a deep breath. But he doesn’t know what will happen next. The attackers, he says, took his passport, phone and all his money. The 53-year-old family man from Senegal saved himself the day before on foot, by train and thanks to friendly drivers to the Tunisian capital Tunis. Cisse had previously worked as a foreman on a construction site in the port city of Sfax, 270 kilometers away. Until, out of nowhere, a wave of violence against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa began.