x Emotional and personal impoverishment: Children were in the above mentioned conditions for months, purposeless and inactive, wearing the same dirty clothes every day, without being able to take a bath and without any actual sun light. Some of them could not communicate during detention with anyone ± a relative, a member of the staff, sometimes not even another minor inmate-. 47 When finally released, they were in a worse condition than they originally were, obviously weakened both physically and mentally. E,QGLUHFWFRQVHTXHQFHVRQFKLOGUHQ¶VOegal status and future to come. x Misinformation and mistrust / suspicion: Due to the absence of any official information, minors are totally unaware of their current status and situation. They believed rumors and whatever they have heard from other inmates, parents or compatriots. Whatever they saw or heard concerning adult detainees, they believed applied to them as well, while sometimes they were deliberately misinformed. Hearing different things from different sources, children became suspicious of everyone, and were thus often unable to accept any actual help provided.48 x Inability to understand: Information on asylum procedures, especially on a possible family reunification or on matters concerning guardianship can be very complicated. It requires time, effort and clarity for procedures that are not easily understood even by adults, let alone a confused minor. 47 Many children were isolated by the rest of their inmates for they were speaking a different language. This was the case with francophone or children of an Arabic origin, who appeared in detention premises scarcely as isolated cases. Thus compatriots were missing and so they could not communicate with anyone but NGOs. 48 Z, male aged 14, originated from a family residing in Germany as recognised refugees. Nonetheless he refused to try for a family reunification according to the Dubllin II Regulation asking for Germany to take charge of him and his claim, for ± as he replied to his lawyer ± ³My father said , there is no such procedure ´ 26