PARIS: Mohammed, Fayiq, Zyad, Bilal -- an engineer, a high-school student, a cardiologist and an accountant... Or at least they were until they set off on the long and dangerous route to Europe, their promised land.

Far from backgrounds of extreme poverty, many of the hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees inching their way through the continent studied at university or worked in good jobs before disaster hit.

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