This article was originally published in a shortened Version at taz.de. Photo source: WDR. In the beginning of October, reports from a European research collective about illegal pushbacks at the EU’s external border went online in European media. Many outlets reported on Croatian intervention police violently preventing fugitives from entering the European Union. The videosContinue reading “Violent pushbacks – no news from the European external border”
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“If Europeans are not accepting what is happening, why are you building camps with a lot of funding like here.”
Zaid* is a 37-year-old man from Afghanistan. He is one of around 700 hundred persons stuck in Velika Kladusa, Bosnia Herzegovina- BiH, in the attempt to reach Europe. After having spent some time in Greece, he now tries to reach his family, which is split in camps in Croatia and Slovenia. Zaid agreed to meetContinue reading ““If Europeans are not accepting what is happening, why are you building camps with a lot of funding like here.””
The Border Starts Here 