Djurovic: Croatian police secretly transferring up to 100 migrants to Serbia every day

The director of the Asylum Protection Center says horror testimonies are heard from migrants coming from Croatia

For weeks, the Croatian police have been beating and robbing migrants coming to that country via Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and then secretly transporting them to Serbia, Rados Djurovic, director of the Asylum Protection Center, has told the Mitrovica Info portal.

According to him, the worst such case happened 15 days ago when hundreds of refugees who came to Croatia from Bosnia and Herzegovina near Slavonski Brod were harassed, shoved into police vans, and transferred across the border to Serbia near Sid and Adasevci. As Mitrovica Info writes, they were first stripped of their shoes and clothes and then forced to walk through a forest, and into our country.

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Djurovic says that between 50 and 100 migrants are being transferred from Croatia to Serbia in this way every day.

"The Croatians are literally playing ping-pong with refugees. As a group comes to them from Bosnia and Herzegovina, they secretly take them to Serbia, humiliating them along the way. The latest example of about a hundred refugees being transferred to Serbia near Sid best illustrated that. They were picked up by Croatian police officers after they came from BiH, shoved into police vans and brought to our border," says Djurovic, adding:

"They were forced to take off their clothes and shoes, and then shoved over to our side (of the border). The migrants walked barefoot to the reception center in Adasevci (in Serbia). We heard terrible testimonies from them about how they were beaten, locked up, robbed by the Croatians," says Djurovic.

According to him, Serbia is in a very disadvantaged position when it comes to migrants.

"We are literally between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, there are EU member-states whose mechanisms we cannot use. On the other, there are non-EU countries in the south that are just looking for a way to get rid of refugees. We are in the middle and that is why we currently have 5,000 migrants, of whom 3,500 are in reception centers," he said.

Video: Migrants jump over the fence between Serbia and Hungary

(Telegraf.rs/Mitrovica.info)