Whatever the continent's leaders seem to do, the determination of desperate people is proving impossible to squash.
These days we’ve become almost too used to stories that feature migrants crossing some treacherous part of the world as they try to escape whatever conditions forced them to take to the ocean in a dingy or trek through jungles with poisonous snakes and murderous gangs.
It’s a worldwide problem with too many faces, so to remove ourselves from feeling bad, we re-categorise them with a convenient blanket term: migrants.walking More than 130,000 migrants have entered Italy this year – almost double the same period in 2021 – following a surge of arrivals by boat to the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
Fearing police, most avoid the road up to the official crossing into France. Instead, they scatter into the forest, hiding and waiting to dash across the mountains, away from prying eyes. Heavy mist, and temperatures dropping fast, the rocky paths have already claimed several lives.
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