(BBC) Even among the Afghan migrants already living at the camp in Calais, Mohammad Wali stands out. Tall and broad, with a huge gap-toothed smile and a blue scarf wound around his head, he seems full of energy, full of hope.
He arrived here a week ago, he told me, after being evacuated from Kabul airport on a French military flight.
“Somebody said ‘the airport is sealed — there are too many people there,'” he said. “So I start the car, and I go there. I see [so] many people in airport, children crying, women crying, ‘Afghanistan is finished, please give me way to go to any country — not [just] England or France; any country.'”
Mohammad said he worked as a bodyguard for a political party, whose members were targeted by the Taliban, and that his boss advised him to leave.
