Our latest report exposes intensified border violence and erosion of asylum rights in Europe – an immediate result of the EU Migration and Asylum Pact and the reforms to the Schengen Border’s Code.
They held a gun to the head of one child, and asked “Are you going back to Croatia?” whilst he replied “no, no , no, please do not hit me again”.
“They don’t respect the refugees. They take advantage of us, the police, the border police and also the smugglers”... They treat us like [not humans].”
He told us that when night fell, people were forced to enter a tiny hut in the middle of nowhere. They were robbed of the last money they had and left stranded in the middle of nowhere by the smugglers. They spent two days of despair in this hut.
Surveillance, random ID checks, showing documents to access services, and all that nasty shit that corrodes rights and privacy. Introducing these controls within the EU is legal only on a temporary basis and in so-called ‘exceptional’ situations, and states have to notify the European Commission of their reasons.
He said, “They released dogs on him but luckily the dogs had only bitten clothing and not skin.” T. later showed me where they’d smacked him on the arm with a baton. The Croatian police stole his money and his phone.
On April 10th the European Parliament will take the proposed Migration and Asylum Pact to a plenary vote.
The Protocol shall be for a period of five years, automatically renewed unless one of the Parties communicates its disagreement within six months of its expiry.
"After the Croatian police kicked his face with iron boots whilst at the border last night, he lost 4 teeth, and his face was completely smashed in".
France managed to uphold this practice for the past 8 years, causing an estimated thousands of pushbacks.