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A judge declared that they had to pay 50 euros or 5000 dinars for illegally crossing the border from Serbia to Croatia

Date & Time 2018-01-22
Location Tovarnik
Reported by No Name Kitchen
Coordinates 45.1648822, 19.1522058
Pushback from Croatia
Pushback to Serbia
Taken to a police station yes
Minors involved no
WLTI* involved no
Men involved no
Age unknown
Group size 2
Countries of origin Pakistan
Treatment at police station or other place of detention detention, forced to pay fee
Overall number of policemen and policewomen involved unknown
Violence used no violence used
Police involved Croatian and Serbian police

2 men walked across the Serbo-Croatian border, with an aim of reaching Zagreb, the police caught them in Tovarnik. They asked for asylum but the police answered that there was no asylum in Croatia, that they had to go back to Serbia because they “have no documents, no passports, no ID, you are illegal, so go back”.

The Croatian police transferred them to the Serbian police. The 2 men were brought to a police station in Sid and to a court. A judge declared that they had to pay 50 euros or 5000 dinars for illegally crossing the border from Serbia to Croatia. The 2 men didn’t have the money to pay, and the judge informed them that they should go to jail for 5 days. They did not receive any documents from this trial nor from the judge’s decision.

They were transfered to the jail in Sremska Mitrovica. The police gave them a document stating that they would be jailed for 7 days and that their fine was 7000 dinars. In the end they were jailed for 8 days.