Fouzi Bendjama Receives Migration Media Award: First Place Radio Category, Arabic
Date: June 14, 2017
Malta
Transcript:
Host: Leila Ghandi, Journalist, Morocco
“We are happy to welcome onstage Mr Loick Berrou, who is editor-in chief of France 24, who is going to award Mr Fouzi Bendjama, producer and sport news anchor in the Algerian private channel Dzair News, and his winning entry, (yes you can applaud him, he is coming) focuses on daily life of Algerian families whose children have undertaken illegal migration into Europe. Congratulations again to you.”
Fouzi BENDJAMA:
موضوع الهجرة هو الشيء الذي حفزني للتقديم على هذه الجائزة، قبلها طبعا قمت باجراء تحقيق عن عائلات المهاجرين غير الشرعيين الذين يعيشون في الجزائر وأيضا في بلجيكا في بروكسل. شباب انطلقوا عبر مراكب الموت كما تلقب في البحر، تركوا آباءهم ولم يخبروهم بأنهم سيذهبون الى أوروبا، حدثت القطيعة والفاجعة لدى الآباء والأبناء طبعا فأنا قمت بإجراء جسر بين الآباء والابناء في أوروبا، وبعض الآباء قد أصيب بمرض مزمن. كانت هناك قسوة كبيرة في التحقيق الذي قمت به لكنه أعطى ثماره بشكل جيد جدا. جميع الدول الاوروبية وحتى ربما بعض العربية قامت بمجهودات كبيرة جدا ولقاءات كثيرة من اجل تحسين ظروف المهاجرين الشرعيين وايضا ايجاد حلول بالنسبة للمهاجرين غير الشرعيين المتواجدين في اوروبا لحماية مصالحهم ومصالح ايضا هؤلاء المهاجرين.
Translation: The topic of migration motivated me to apply to this award ceremony, as I have done a report about the families of illegal immigrants in Algiers and with their sons in Brussels. Young men who have chosen the so-called “boats of death”, left their parents without telling them they were going to Europe, relations between them were interrupted as the parents were devastated, so I played the role of “a bridge” between the fathers and their sons in Europe and a certain father had become chronically sick. The report portrayed difficult hardships but ended up giving very good results. All the European countries and even some Arabic countries have undertaken great efforts and done summits to improve situations of legal immigrants and also to find solutions to illegal immigrants currently in Europe both to protect their interests and the interests of these immigrants.”
