What does this child know about war? What do you know about what is happening? He must be only three or four years old and all he knows is that he should be at home, safe and secure with his family. Instead, he is trying to cross Europe in a crucis way to a better destination without understanding very well why.
Below you can see a moving photo, taken by NBC journalist Carlo Angerer on the railroad tracks of the city of Szeged near the border with Serbia, which shows us without doubt the other side of the conflict, the vivid image from the innocence and greatness of a child who offers a cookie to a Hungarian police officer. An exceptional photo, but very sad.
During standoff on railway tracks near Szeged, a young refugee offers a cookie to a Hungarian police officer. pic.twitter.com/lso7Z9LQ60
- Carlo Angerer (@carloangerer) September 8, 2015A few meters away there are clashes, tragic and violent scenes that a child of that age should not be witnessing. But he, with all his tenderness and naivety, he approaches a group of officers who intercept the tracks to offer them a cookie as if nothing happened. A child who has nothing, a child who has had to leave with the job, a child who is experiencing hardship, who may have had to separate from his family ... Children are wiser.
When I see babies and children crushed by a crowd trying to get on a train my soul shrinks. Why do they have to be living this tragedy? What do they have to do? What do they know? What did little Aylam know?
