Here’s the missing backstory: Gassama left Mali as a teenager and traveled via , Libya—where he was arrested and beaten—to the coast, where he undertook a perilous boat journey to Italy. 
Hapa ninakupa simulizi ambalo hatukusikia likizungumzwa: Gassama aliondoka Mali kama kijana kinda na alisafiri kupitia Burkina Faso, Libya -ambapo alikamatwa na kupigwa- hatimaye akaelekea ufukweni, alikopata usafiri wa maji kwenda Italia.