Hundreds of Tunisians were repatriated from Ukraine this week. Most of them were students who fled the war alone, often on their own. This is the case of Sonia Basly, who had been studying medicine in Odessa for three months, after two years in France. Arrived Tuesday in Tunis, the young woman is still traumatized.
With our correspondent in Tunisia, Oumeima Nechi
Sonia Basly, 22, is slowly recovering from her journey. To flee the attacks on Odessa, where she was studying with her sister, she left the city in a hurry, because neither the Tunisian authorities nor her university had told her to leave: “ We stayed until the last minute, and even at the last minute, the university asked us to stay, to continue the courses under the bombardments. And in the morning, we had to leave the city, because the sounds of bombings got too close. And staying that close to a bomb was clearly suicide. »
Shocked
Determined to save her little sister Syrine, the young woman crossed the Moldovan border on her own. There she was taken to Romania and then repatriated to Tunisia. Today, Sonia is still in shock: ” I’m still trying to recover from five days of malnutrition, lack of sleep, fatigue, ordeal, I’m trying to get out of this already and then I’ll see. »
In her living room in a chic suburb of Tunis, this elegant brunette is now worried about her future: ” But…we’re all lost. We don’t really know what to do, the university never tells us anything, neither do our deans. We are really lost. We fear for our studies. »
Anguish
The two sisters are now trying to recover physically and psychologically. But Sonia remains anguished by the fate of those still caught in the fire of this war.
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