Fleeing hatred and death, his escape took him to Austria. Where he had to defend himself against prejudice and xenophobia. Nizar Joha tells Krone+ his difficult journey, from his escape from the Syrian army to becoming a successful businessman in the Waldviertel.
‘I can’t even kill an ant or hurt a fly. And certainly not shoot someone with a gun.” When Nizar Joha talks about his time in Syria, there is a feeling of melancholy. His parents and relatives still live there; he hasn’t seen them in ten years. Because he and his wife fled in 2012 and decided not to take up arms. The tasks that the army had in store for the then 28-year-old were incompatible with Nizar’s moral ideas.
Source: Krone
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