A few weeks ago, Janda Said (27) and Enas Abdel Salam (23) left Syria for Lebanon, where they boarded a boat that they hoped would take them to Europe to meet their fiancees in Germany and complete their marriage. deals with two brothers. .
But the campaign, which started on the night of April 23, soon ended with the boat sinking when the Lebanese army tried to arrest it off the coast of Tripoli in the north. According to the UN, there were 84 people on the boat, 45 of whom were rescued, 11 of them Syrians, while only eight bodies were found. About forty people are still missing, eight of them are Syrians, including Janda and Enas. The mother, Shava, said goodbye to her daughter on the eve of her journey by throwing a henna party for her, an inherited tradition for a bride who wears a red dress, in the presence of her friends, during which her hands are adorned with henna. Shavakha did not know how Ganda would go to her fiancé in Germany.