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Berlin (dpa) - Amanal Petros will also be very worried about his family and home on the way to the Olympic marathon.
«That is brutally tough!
Sometimes you sleep very badly and have bad dreams.
That burdens me brutally, "said the athlete from TV Wattenscheid of the German press agency.
The 25-year-old has now tracked down his long-lost family and finally made contact with the three women on the Ethiopian-Sudanese border.
But his mother and two sisters are still in danger because the war in the Tigray region is not over.
Petros maintains contact with loved ones through a good friend from Mekele, the capital of the war region.
“There is no way I can go there.
In Tigray everything is terrible, everything is broken.
The war is still raging, »said Petros desperately.
«We no longer have any hospitals, no clinics, no pharmacy, and not a single factory is any more.
Everything destroyed, everything burned, zero. "
His friend goes to see the women once a week.
“And then he tells me what my family needs, what they say, what the situation is like,” reported the German marathon record holder.
His next goal is clear.
"I absolutely have to bring them to Sudan - they are definitely safer there than now," said Petros.
An escape across the border is “very dangerous, really scary.
Many women were raped by then.
I am now looking for a safe solution with as little risk as possible, ”said the young man, who was born in Eritrea, grew up in Ethiopia and came to Germany as a refugee from Tigray in January 2012.
He was naturalized in October 2015.
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