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Bru” the girl’s nickname He led with his heart — and was
caught. after he volunteered to help design and build shelters at the squalid
camp in Calais, accused of aiding illegal immigration for trying to take Bahar
Ahmadi from the settlement in Calais, France, to safety in England, where the
Afghan girl had family waiting to look after her. In September, he gave in to
the repeated pleas of the girl’s father, Reza Ahmadi, who begged him to spirit
his daughter across the English Channel, but they were stopped by guards who
eventually found her squirreled away in Lawrie’s van, teddy bear squeezed
tightly to her chest. He said he bonded with “Bru” — the girl’s nickname —
after he volunteered to help design and build shelters at the squalid camp in
Calais that is home to about 4,200 people fleeing war and poverty. He goes on
trial Thursday in France.
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