Alireza Panahi, 23, peered from his vantage point on the White Cliffs of Dover as he plotted how to escape Britain and its broken asylum system.
For six hours, the young refugee peered from his vantage point on the White Cliffs of Dover as he plotted how to escape Britain and its broken asylum system.
Alireza Panahi now regrets his bid to seek asylum in Britain and said: 'The UK is not a promised land for asylum seekers' One French reporter who has witnessed the astonishing reverse diaspora, told the Mail: 'Very soon the traffickers will be running refugee boats out of Britain back to France on a regular basis.'
His story starts in a town called Kazeroon, 1,000 miles from the capital Tehran. He has three brothers and one sister, and comes from a middle-class, university-educated family. 'If they had known the truth, my mother in particular, would have begged me to stay. It would have been hard for me to say no to her.'
'We had to leave for Albania, and travelled on to Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Croatia and Slovenia,' he recalls. 'It was crowded on the beach with nearly 50 people trying to get on them. They were all over the place. There was a lot of noise with the traffickers struggling to keep control over the passengers.
In Dover, the Home Office sent him and the others to nearby Manston camp where new boat migrants' identities are checked by fingerprinting. 'The other migrants there kept talking about the Government plan to house people on barges. There was gossip about us being sent to Rwanda. It was a terrifying time for me.'
Finally, after only 11 months in Britain, Alireza had had enough. He decided to get out of the UK and return to France. In despair, he bought a bus ticket with the last of his money to Dover port. He walked up onto the White Cliffs and began to plot his next move: to stow away on a lorry to France.'I felt deceived by Britain. I was angry. I watched the lorries move through Dover port towards the ferries. I saw where the security men check them out.'
He remained still in his hiding place as the unsuspecting driver drove on to the ferry and, two hours later, emerged in Calais.
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