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“We were afraid to ask for our stuff and got beaten”
The main respondent is a 40-year-old man from Iran. According to the respondent, he arrived on the 8th November 2023 within a group of 3 (the main-respondent a 40 year old man from Iran, a 42 year old man from Iran and a 25 year old man from Afghanistan) to the city of Korenica, in Croatia, after they have been walking for two days and nights in the cold weather. The respondent describes that when they arrived at the bus station in Korenica the group got stopped and arrested by 4 men wearing uniforms whot arrived in a white vehicle. The respondent reports that the police officers were wearing uniforms with the Croatian Logo on the shoulder but with no individual names written on the uniform.
The respondent states that the police took them with the car back to the green border between Croatia and Bosnia, where another 4 uniformed men were waiting. The respondent can’t give the exact location, where this was happening but describes the place as „hidden in nature“. The respondent states that the place where the police car stopped and the officers forced them to leave the vehicle was next to a river. He describes that the policeman took their money, their phones and other belongings and made a pile before adding some gasoline on the pile and setting the pile on fire with a lighter. The respondent describes that during the process of stealing their belongings the police started to beat them with batons and then afterwords used the batons to force him and the other to friends to walk through the river back to Bosnia. The respondent describes the water level of the river as being around 2 meters. “Is the work of the Croatian police human?“.
The respondent recaps all the eight times he got pushed back in the last weeks from the Croatian border so far and tells me that from the 8 times in total, 5 times he got all his belongings stolen and 3 times the police didn’t take his stuff. The respondent claims that after the group made it through the river they arrived at the other side and made a fire to warm themselves. Then the group walked back to the town of Bihac. Additional pictures