”Now he is blind on one eye”

From there they got transferred by a police car to a police camp, where they got added to an afghanistan group. In the camp, the hole group was pushed into a white police prisoner transporter and taken to a place 140 km away to a different location on the bosinan border. The person describes how the police turned on the air conditioning of the van and they were hypothermized, in the dark, starving and exhausted for over 3 hours. The location where the group had to exit the car was in the mountains near Gornji Zirovac and outside, waiting for them, there were 3 individuals armed with kalashnikovs and wearing balaclavas, to hide their identities. Judging by the description of the respondent, they are most likely members of the EPZ unit. After stealing their phones, the police officers and alleged EPZ officers started the main act of physical violence. The respondent describes how they were first beaten up with batons, manly on the body, while later they were pushed on the ground and kicked multiple times, also in the face. One of his companions suffered a particularly violent assault, resulting in the permanent loss of vision in one eye, likely due one of the mentioned kicks. Afterwards the group got thrown into a big pit.In the end of these several hours of violence and intimidation, when they were about to be released, the main respondent describes how there was one EPZ officers with a sniper who threatened them. The respondent explains how the safety catch was off, which made them sure they are about to die now, they were extremely terrified.