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The minor was beaten up by three guards in the ship

Date & Time 2020-02-10
Location Ship in Venice, Italy
Reported by No Name Kitchen
Coordinates 45.4383649, 12.307342
Pushback from Italy
Pushback to Greece
Taken to a police station unknown
Minors involved yes
WLTI* involved no
Men involved yes
Age 17 - 17
Group size 7
Countries of origin Afghanistan
Treatment at police station or other place of detention detention, no translator present, denial of food/water
Overall number of policemen and policewomen involved Unknown
Violence used beating (with batons/hands/other), kicking, pushing people to the ground, insulting, forcing to undress
Police involved Ship security, Italian police officers and Greek police officers

On the 2nd of October, 2020, the respondent – an Afghan minor – was tucked away under a truck inside a ship leaving from Patras to Italy. Once the ship arrived to Venice, the boy was  discovered by security guards inside the boat in the port. The men told him “there was nowhere to run”, consequently forcing him to take his shoes off and keeping them from him. He was handcuffed and then brought into what the victim described as “the captain’s room”.

In this room, the respondent described that three Italian officials punched and kicked him in his lower body, even after he expressed being a minor. The respondent believed these men to be security guards.

The route of movement according to the respondent’s testimony

Afterwards, he was directly brought back to a room in order to be pushed-back to Greece. The small room’s door was locked and he was not given anything to eat – just a bottle of water – for the long hours the trip back to Greece lasted. 

Reportedly, the minor was only given his shoes back after arriving in Igoumenitsa, where he was dropped off with an expulsion order to be completed in the time of one month. The respondent also claimed that six other guys were pushed back from Venice to Igoumenitsa on the same date as him. After being returned to Igoumenitsa, the respondent described making his way back to Patras.