THIS is the moment an asylum seeker appears to laugh with pals on a tiny dinghy before filming himself watching TV in a luxury hotel. The man, thought to be called Rahat Popal, filmed his journey a…
Popal, said to be from Afghanistan, also films himself watching TV in a luxury hotel, first seems to travel by TGV, France's high speed rail network, to the north of the country.
The footage, which has since been taken down, appears to show Popal in the train's refreshments car dressed in a white hoodie. He is thought to have disembarked at the Gard du Nord and is then seen walking along a motorway with a group of otheris next filmed grinning in a small dinghy which is crammed full of men, women and children.
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