Beyond the ever-growing list of refugees who have died in the Channel while trying to reach England, another list exists - that of the missing. For two long weeks, Osama, a young Syrian, has been searching for his father, who he lost contact when their dinghy sank.
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00:00I used to go to the police every three or four days to get information about my father.
00:29But they didn't give me any information, so I had to go to the police and get a DNA test.
00:37They didn't give me any information, so I had to go to the police and get a DNA test.
00:42They took me to the police to get a DNA test to see if I was dead or alive,
00:47so that they could identify me through the DNA test.
00:59I'm alive!
01:29After we had drowned, we sat next to each other for about half an hour.
01:34After half an hour, we separated the boat from each other.
01:40My father was holding on to the side of the boat, I was holding on to the ground.
01:45At that moment, my father and I separated from each other.
01:48These are the boats that were found this morning.
01:50They were found yesterday, and they are not your father's body.
01:54They have sent a report to Dunia.
01:57All the bodies that were found have been identified.
02:00It's not your father's.
02:01Of the majority of the shipwrecks, there are missing people.
02:03But we don't talk about it.
02:05Only the relatives have a lot of trouble getting access to the services that could help them in their search.
02:10So the missing people have already existed for a while,
02:13since we've been talking about these regular shipwrecks in recent months.
02:16And I think it's a situation that illustrates many others that are already there
02:22and that will continue to happen if nothing changes.
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