The family of Osama Abdul Mohsen, the man who was tripped by a camerawoman as he and his son fled from police near the Hungarian border village of Röszke earlier this month, are on their way to Spain thanks to some international generosity.
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Mr Mohsen explained that he received a call from Miguel Ángel Galán, the president of Cenafe, inviting him to come and stay in a flat in Getafe, outside Madrid.
“We got the idea to help a fellow football coach”, Miguel Angel Galan, who runs the school knows as Cenafe, was quoted as telling Cadenar Ser radio yesterday. Galan says the rest of the family will be brought to Spain, according to the sport newspaper “As”.
He said an Arab-speaking member of the school had travelled to Germany to bring Mohsen back to Spain.
“Now I feel that I am (flying) in the sky”, he told the several dozen journalists who waited for him as he arrived from Barcelona with Zaid and another son.
The school wants to find Mohsen a job in Spain’s vast soccer training sector but he speaks only Arabic plus a little English and would need to learn Spanish, said Pedraza, a former national level soccer referee.
The Spanish center aims to rent an apartment for Mohsen and his family in Getafe city, south of Madrid. “First we’re giving him a hand as a humanitarian gesture. He’s interested in our school”, Pedraza added.
Galan said the club has already made an invitation to have them at the Santiago Bernabeu sometime soon. The country last week agreed to take 17,680 refugees from Syria and other countries under a plan set up by the European Commission.
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The mayor of Getafe has welcomed Mohsen and 7-year-old Zaid, damning the actions of Laszlo, who was later removed from her position at Hungary’s N1TV network.
