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Taekwondo champion flees Morocco

Sulaiman Lkaderi
Published date: 16 January 2020 22:40 GMT | Last update: 4 years 10 months ago
Anouar Boukharssa a taekwondo champion flees Morocco to get to Europe. Videos shared online show's him with a group of young men on board a migrant boat as he throws one of his medals into the sea.
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