Where Is Jamil?

Jamil is a friend we met quite a few months ago.
He has some vulnerabilities, that cause him to not always be lucid.
He doesn’t talk much about his past, but the scars on his arms speak for themselves and tell his pain.
We know that he is nearly 30 years old, that he left Aleppo 10 years ago and that, despite seeming often rude and ill-tempered, he exhibits a great need of someone who will stand by him and show him love.

For months we supported him, accompanying him to the “Capanna di Betlemme” to take a shower and spend some time to socialize, and he liked us, and was learning to trust us.
Jamil is Syrian, he obtained international protection in Greece but as the original document was stolen in Athens, now he only owns a photocopy.
After getting his documents stolen, he lived in an abandoned house near the Ritsona camp. There, he felt less vulnerable, and the people living at the camp helped him: they would give him some food, water, a cigarette or two.
We haven’t seen him since the beginning of June.
At the camp they told us that someone saw the police arresting him.
He had a few precedents: once they had found him with a knife; another time he had been involved in a brawl with the camp’s guards; another they had arrested him while he tried to jump the fence to get into camp, where, as a holder of international protection, he could no longer stay.
After a few weeks of contacting various police stations to ask if they had news, increasingly worried for Jamil’s prolonged absence, we filed a missing person’s report, but even then, we received no answers.
Together with Echolibrary, another organisation that supports people on the move, we hired a lawyer who searched for Jamil in police stations and repatriation centres.
Yet nothing came of it, Jamil seems to have completely disappeared.
Where Is Jamil?
Thoughts race: he might have been repatriated to Syria, might have been taken away, he might have left out of his own volition, he might be in a morgue.
Where are you, Jamil?
We do not know, but one thing is certain: you have not been and will never be forgotten.
We will keep looking for you, thinking of you, loving you.