In 2015 – which has now come to be seen as the peak of Europe’s migration crisis – nearly 1 million asylum seekers tried to reach the continent by perilous journeys over land and sea. Most were refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war, but many also came from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other countries across the Middle East and Africa.
In doing so they would test the core values of the European Union, itself an organisation that grew out of the ashes of a war that displaced millions. Ten years on, Guardian reporter Lorenzo Tondo catches up with one Syrian refugee who reflects on the 4,400km journey he undertook to Germany, and how his life has progressed since.
