The group of 23, one married couple and one family with a small girl, were walking through Croatia near the Slovenian border on October 8, 2018.

The group stated that they called a taxi which never appeared but instead of it, a Croatian police car arrived with one officer. After a few minutes, five more officers joined walking, wearing uniforms and using binoculars. They took every individual one by one into a van described by interviewees as a similar size to a Ford Transit, with a windowless backspace. Inside, they were frisked and registered. This process took around four hours, and at some point, both women and the child were crying. One of the individuals was begging not to be taken into jail.

After that, they report that all the 23 of them were taken back with the van to the Serbian border which took  them one hour.