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Moroccan Man With Residency Papers Is Violently Pushed Back
The main respondent is a 35-year-old Moroccan man. He reports that he attempted to enter Croatia in 2023, but was caught by the authorities upon arrival and taken to a police station with the rest of the group he was traveling with. While there, he was taken to a small room where his fingerprints were taken and was asked to sign some documents, which at the time he was led to believe were not part of an asylum-seeking petition. After being detained, he was told to leave the country but was not forcibly deported.
After being told to leave, the person in question passed through Slovenia and then Italy before eventually settling in the Netherlands, where he would reside for almost a year. After almost a year in the Netherlands, he was detained by the local authorities. While detained, he asked to be granted asylum, but was told that he had already petitioned for asylum in Croatia and that his proposal had been approved and granted. After informing the interviewee that they could legally reside in Croatia, he was given a plane ticket to Zagreb.
He arrived in Croatia on the 6th of June 2025, and once there, was given documents and a card which confirmed his legal status in the country and allowed him to seek work. After receiving these documents, that same day, he was able to reach a small town near Gospic, Croatia, in an effort to find a job.
After being told to leave, the person in question passed through Slovenia and then Italy before eventually settling in the Netherlands, where he would reside for almost a year. After almost a year in the Netherlands, he was detained by the local authorities. While detained, he asked to be granted asylum, but was told that he had already petitioned for asylum in Croatia and that his proposal had been approved and granted. After informing the interviewee that they could legally reside in Croatia, he was given a plane ticket to Zagreb.
He arrived in Croatia on the 6th of June 2025, and once there, was given documents and a card which confirmed his legal status in the country and allowed him to seek work. After receiving these documents, that same day, he was able to reach a small town near Gospic, Croatia, in an effort to find a job.
Rough estimate of the location where the violent police assault took place, near the city of Gospic, Croatia.
An hour or two after his arrival in this small town, around 5 police officers dressed in all blue and sporting balaclavas detained him and asked for his papers. The authorities arrived in three separate vehicles, two of which were official police vans, while the third was a simple black car. The interviewee presented his documentation to the authorities, who then proceeded to keep it as well as several other belongings while also breaking his phone in the process. Immediately after, the authorities started to beat the man in question. The officers used gloves with spikes on the knuckles as well as metal batons during the assault. The man’s teeth were shattered (photo evidence) as a direct result of the assault, and he was left with several other ailments (photo evidence).
After the beating, the police put him in one of the official police vehicles and drove him to the border, and left him there with a small bag of clothes while keeping his documentation, wallet, money, and laptop with several other items, including a laptop. The interviewee had a previous medical condition, and during the several hours that transpired during the incident, he was never offered any sort of food or water. The only thing he remembers from the location where the police released him was that there was a big mountain in the area, which is where the officers directed him to go to reach Bosnia. It took him around a day’s walk to get back to the city of Bihac, where he had first left from when trying to enter Croatia in 2023, with his injuries possibly factoring into the time it would take him to track back from the border.
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1 people ,
from Morocco,
aged 35.