Ahmed Alhashimi's spoke to the BBC after daughter Sara died when the family tried to make it to the UK in a small boat last week.
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"That time was like death itself. We saw people dying. I saw how those men were behaving. They didn't care whom they were stepping on - a child, or someone's head, young or old. People started to suffocate," said Ahmed, bitterly.
Although Ahmed is an Iraqi, his daughter had never even visited the country. She was born in Belgium and had spent most of her short life in Sweden."
"But I've spent 14 years in Europe and have been rejected," said Ahmed,
detailing years of failed attempts to secure residency in the EU after he'd fled Iraq following what he described as threats from militia groups there.
Belgium reportedly denied him asylum by arguing that Basra, his hometown in Iraq, was classified as a safe area. He said his children spent the last seven years staying with a relative in Sweden, but that he was recently informed that they would be deported, with him, to Iraq."
Tragic as the case is............... why has Europe consistently rejected him and he feels we won`t?
Belgium, Sweden, France ............... all safe countries.