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They had his passport, so it would have been difficult for him to leave and risking arrest by either the Egyptian or Syrian police.
by neaden 6y ago
They had his passport, so it would have been difficult for him to leave and risking arrest by either the Egyptian or Syrian police.
- codezero 6y agoThat region is experiencing a lot of chaos and I'd say that being alone on a ship is a lot safer than being alone with no passport and wanted by the law.
- sdenton4 6y agoSeems like a good reason to get in touch with your home country's embassy/consulate...
- qz_ 6y agoNot if you're from Syria.
- true_religion 6y agoWhy not? Syria does have an embassy in Cairo.
- siva7 6y agoYou realize there is currently one of the bloodiest civil wars of this century happening in syria? an embassy isn’t much worth in such a situation
- arlk 6y agoThey don't care. Just to let you know how bad are we treated. As a Syrian, I should exchange 100 dollars to enter the country. Some people were stuck at the border with Lebanon when that bill was issued and a woman died waiting for someone to bring her the 100 dollars (or 200 because he also needs to go back). We pay 800 euros to get our 2 years of validity passports. A couple of weeks ago, I had to wait from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. to get the embassy in Berlin to attest my signature on the passport. I had to wait 4 hours to attest my papers at the totally empty embassy in Jakarta.
- samerjj 6y agoSame here my friend, they were literally whipping people for cutting the line on the Syrian embassy in Lebanon.
- jollybean 6y agoA random Syrian, or someone 'without passport' is not going to raise any scrutiny in Egypt. Just a few handfulls of cash could have expedited his way to at least Lebanon. There's something odd about this story because neither a passport nor money should have kept him there, unless there was literally some kind of watch for him, and/or the cash situation was really that extremely dire. That said, he was able to survive for 4 years so money had to be coming from somewhere. I suggest that he was maybe being paid a tiny amount, and that he felt it'd be better to 'stick it out' as a nearly worthless cog, than to take a risky path home to what might be nothing anyhow.
- londons_explore 6y agoHe was staying in the hope he'd get back pay. (Either from the shipping company, or from proceeds of selling the ship to pay fines)