“Sorry for turning our back on you”, “Sorry for the walls”, “Sorry for closing our borders”. These are just some of the messages shown by the Finlandese video shot in order to answer to the refugee child from the Idomeni camp, photographed while holding a sign saying “We’re sorry for Brussels”, in the aftermath of the attacks to the European capital.

Produced by the Finland-based broadcaster X3M radio, the video features several citizens while holding signs written as a reply to the child stranded, like thousands of other fellow asylum seekers, at at the Idomeni camp on Greece’s border with Macedonia. Border closures by some European states have left almost 13 thousand people stranded there, forced to live in the mud, rain and cold weather, with small plastic tents as only shelters. The Greek interior minister, Panagiotis Kouroublis compared Idomeni to a Nazi concentration camp. “I do not hesitate to say that this is a modern-day Dachau, a result of the logic of closed borders," he said, during his visit to the camp 10 days ago.

“We were really moved by picture of the boy standing in the refugee camp and holding that sign.” X3M radio wrote on Facebook. “We are all really sad that hatred has gained such a strong foothold in the world.”