![]() “Now I’m stuck here on the Greek border,” he says. By some miracle, a fishing boat saw his dinghy and alerted the coastguard. He almost drowned when the outboard motor on his dinghy failed as he crossed from Turkey to Greece. ![]() Three months ago, he left his parents in Kabul and made his way towards Western Europe. I’m exploring the Greek-Macedonian border with Emran, a charismatic young Afghan boy, filming him for a Channel 4 documentary – War Child. They didn’t have enough money for everyone to go. “Two years ago my parents sent my older brother to Germany, to safety. I follow the boy’s lead as we creep past razor wire bunched at the foot of a gleaming silver fence. “The Taliban were killing children as they walked to school, so I had to leave.” ![]()
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