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Forced into a river after being robbed of money and personal belongings

The main respondent is a 23-year-old man from Turkey. According to the respondent, he arrived with a group of in total 13 people, two of them women and all over 18 years old with a taxi close to the Bosnian/Croatian border at midnight on the 13th to 14th November. The respondent reports that they crossed the border and walked through the forest until 7 am the next morning. He describes how the group was walking without anything to eat or drink, and that it was very cold. The respondent states that at 7 am the group was resting for one or two hours before continuing to walk through the forest. He describes how they continued walking for another six hours and taking a rest of one or two hours again. He explains that at 8 pm they arrived at a location where another car was supposed to come and pick them up. According to the respondent, the group waited for a whole day at the location but the car never showed up. The respondent tells me that after this amount of waiting he decided with a group of three other people, two of them Kurdish (one man, one women) and another man from Turkey, to leave the group and try to continue the way on their own. He reports that they decided to buy a bus ticket for the bus from Korenica and planned to get on the bus at the bus stop in Rudanovac. The respondent states that the group of four was hiding out near the bus stop to wait for the bus, but the bus didn’t arrive. The respondent reports that after a while the group left the hide out to get some food and water. The respondent describes that a police car with two men wearing uniforms stopped the group when they entered the village and asked for their documents. The respondent is not able to describe in detail the uniforms the police officers were wearing, but refers to them always as “Croatian police”. The respondent reports that when the group expressed that they didn’t have documents to show to the police, the officers got in contact with other officers and another police car with two officers arrived. Then, according to the respondent, the transit group of four was brought to the police station in Korenica.
The respondent describes that at the police station the officers didn’t want to take their fingerprints, the officers stole their valuables (in total 1700 Euro and one IPhone 14X Pro) and took the backpacks with the additional clothes. The respondent states that he was able to see how the police officer was throwing their stuff in a dumpster. He claims that they only remained with the clothes they had on their bodies. The respondent recalls being taken with a car to a spot at the Croatian/Bosnian border where the border is marked through a river. He explains that they had to get out of the car and the officers told them to walk through the river back to Bosnia. The respondent states that when the group didn’t want to get into the water the police officers used physical violence to force them into the river. According to him, then the four members of the transit group walked in wet clothes back to Bosnia.

overview
4 people ,
from Turkey, Kurdistan,
aged 23-28.
