They hit me by a metal baton to my mouth and I lost my tooth. They also hit me into my knee that got twisted

Date & Time 2018-04-08

Location Close to Glinica, Croatia

Reported by No Name Kitchen

Coordinates 45.218529, 15.939089

Pushback from Croatia

Pushback to Bosnia

Taken to a police station unknown

Minors involved no

WLTI* involved no

Men involved yes

Age 27 - 30

Group size 3

Countries of origin Morocco

Treatment at police station or other place of detention

Overall number of policemen and policewomen involved 4

Violence used beating (with batons/hands/other), electric shock, threatening with guns, theft of personal belongings

Police involved Four Croatian police officers, wearing masks and black clothes, a big white van

4 men from Morocco walked together from Velika Kladuša to Croatia. The whole group was caught by 4 Croatian police officers in the Croatia close to Glinica. One of the men managed to escape, the others were physically attacked with metal sticks and electric-shock sticks by the Croatian police:

They hit me by a metal baton to my mouth and I lost my tooth. They also hit me into my knee that got twisted.

When the police stopped beating the men, they took them directly to the Bosnian border for their deportation. Once they arrived near the border, they made the men undress, searching for their money and mobile phones. They stole 500€ from the respondent. Afterwards, the police told the men to walk back to Bosnia and started shooting in the air with their guns. The men walked 40 km until they reached the makeshift camp in Velika Kladuša.