SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF PUSHBACKS AND INTERNAL VIOLENCE DOCUMENTED BY BVMN DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER
This report brings together first-hand testimonies from a range of countries in the region to look at the way European Union states and other actors are affecting systemic violence towards people crossing borders.
BVMN is a network of watchdog organisations active in the Balkans and Greece including Rigardu, Are You Syrious, Mobile Info Team, InfoKolpa, Collective Aid, Blindspots, Pushback Alarmphone Austria, I Have Rights, Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria and Mission Wings. Combining insights from these different members and other partners, such as Human Rights Observers (France) and Glocal Roots (Greece), this month’s report covers, among other things:
– Testimonies of Pushbacks from Croatia: minors exposed to violence and detention
– Winter conditions and pushback violence: Theft of clothes and other essentials
– Austrian veto lifted: Schengen Accession of Bulgaria and Romania
– Continuous lack of interpretation services across Greece
– Intensification of police operations in Thessaloniki targeting undocumented people
– Close to 500 UAMs in the so-called “safe zone” of the Samos CCAC
– Number of Syrians with temporary protection in Turkey falls below three million for the first time since 2017
– Hostile police behavior in Northern France
– 17 people lose their life in the Aegean
