| ISBN |
9781635420180 (paperback) |
| Name |
Pélissier, Stéphan author. |
| Uniform title |
Je voulais juste sauver ma famille. English |
| Title |
I just wanted to save my family : a memoir / Stéphan Pélissier with Cécile-Agnès Champart ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter. |
| Published |
New York : Other Press, [2021] |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
244 pages : map ; 21 cm. |
| Notes |
"Originally published in 2019 as Je voulais juste sauver ma famille by Éditions Michel Lafon,Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex." |
| Summary |
"The timely, powerful memoir of a man unjustly charged with a crime for helping his relatives, refugees from Syria. For trying to save his in-laws, who were fleeing certain death in Syria, Stéphan Pélissier was threatened with fifteen years in prison by the Greek justice system, which accused him of human smuggling. His crime? Having gone to search for the parents, brother, and sister of his wife, Zéna, in Greece rather than leaving them to undertake a treacherous journey by boat to Italy. Their joy on finding each other quickly turned into a nightmare: Pélissier was arrested as a result of a missing car registration and thrown into prison. Although his relatives were ultimately able to seek asylum-legally-in France, Pélissier had to fight to prove his innocence, and to uphold the values of common humanity and solidarity in which he so strongly believes. I Just Wanted to Save My Family offers a heartrending window into the lives of those displaced by the Syrian civil war and a scathing critique of the often absurd, unfeeling bureaucracies that determine their fates"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language note |
Translated from the French. |
| Subjects |
Pélissier, Stéphan -- Family |
| Pélissier, Stéphan -- Trials, litigation, etc |
| Refugees -- Syria -- Biography |
| Human smuggling -- Greece |
| False imprisonment -- Greece |
| Lawyers -- France -- Biography |
| Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- Refugees |
| France -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy |
| Other Names |
Champart, Cécile-Agnès author. |
| Hunter, Adriana translator. |
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