(AFP) Since being plucked from a packed inflatable boat by Spanish rescuers in the Mediterranean on Friday, Glenn Alban has slept outdoors on a bed of flattened cardboard boxes in the port of Algeciras in southern Spain.
Stunned at the authorities’ lack of preparedness, the 18-year-old Cameroonian is waiting to be identified by police and allowed to leave the port, the biggest in Spain, a country that has recently overtaken Italy as the preferred destination for migrant arrivals in Europe.
In the meantime, he gets just two meals a day — milk and a biscuit for breakfast and juice and a sandwich for dinner.
“As you can see it is difficult. It is so hot,” he told AFP as he pointed to his makeshift bed, which was sheltered from the blazing sun by a Red Cross blanket he had tied between a fence and a concrete road barrier.
