Islam, a 27-year-old Egyptian, married and father of two children, arrived in London via the refugee corridor that runs through Eritrea in search of a safe haven on the old continent. Graduated in aeronautical engineering at the ATIS Aviation Academy, with the social crisis that hit the country and in flight from a war he says is not his, he chose to look for a way in Europe to provide a better future for his family.
When he arrived in London via the Channel Tunnel and disguised in a freight wagon of the convoy crossing the border, Islam sought political asylum at the American embassy. His wife and children had left them in the house of a French family, whose man had been a fellow student at university time.
