The respondent recounts what he told the police officer to shoot, telling him: “It’s better for me to die than this life here”.
| 30.05.2026 | A field close to Röszke, Hungary | Collective Aid | 46.2042137, 20.0665723 | Hungary | Serbia | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | 6 | Morocco | denial of food/water | 6 + | Beating (Kicking), Threats, Shouting, Pointing with Guns, Harsh Language and Insults (Reference to Race, Reference to Gender, Reference to Ability, Reference to Sexuality), Theft of Belongings, Property Damage, other | 6 Hungarian police officers identified by Hungarian flags on their uniforms Frontex present, identified by Swiss flags on their uniform | 1 |
The respondent is a Moroccan man who was travelling in a group of six Moroccans, four of whom were women. He speaks fluent English. They had travelled through Serbia and gotten close to the Hungarian border, from where they started to walk towards the border late in the evening of the 29th of May. After having crossed the border in the early morning of the 30th of May, they were spotted by the Hungarian police at around 9 am in a wheat field close to Röszke.
The respondent recounts that he and the other people in his group stopped and put their hands up, but a group of six Hungarian police officers immediately started to punch and kick them, shouting “son of a bitch” at him. After kicking him two times in the chest, a police officer put his boot on the respondent's knee and pressed on it, while holding his gun at his head. The respondent recounts what he told the police officer to shoot, telling him: “It’s better for me to die than this life here”.
The police officers were also kicking the others, and the respondent knew that one of the women was pregnant; he said her pregnancy was well visible. When a police officer also started kicking her, he recounts telling the police officer in English not to kick her, saying she was pregnant. Despite this, the police officer continued kicking in her belly. The respondent recounts that the woman then started bleeding, and he suspects that she lost her child. The police officer also shouted at the woman: “Bitch, why are you coming here?”.
The respondent remembered the Hungarian flags on the uniforms of the police officers and also memorised the ID number of the police officer who beat the pregnant woman.
The police also took away the respondent's bag and broke his phone, before ripping apart his diplomas that he had in his bag and also throwing away his shoes.
Around ten minutes after the Hungarian police had found them, Frontex arrived on the scene, identified by the respondent due to their country's flags on their uniform, most of whom were carrying the Swiss flag. The respondent said they didn’t use violence, and also, the Hungarian police stopped beating them once Frontex had arrived.
Soon after, a big van from the Hungarian police arrived, which brought them to a Hungarian police station, where the group was held for around two hours. The respondent recounts repeatedly asking for water, but being denied any. The respondent had wanted to make a complaint about the behaviour of the policemen, but no one had listened to him at the station. Instead, the police officers present were mocking them, saying to them: “We offer you express transport to Serbia, yalla!” The respondent recounts being called “son of a *** - the bad words for our mothers”.
The group was then handed over to the Serbian police, which brought them to Preševo, a transit centre in the very south of Serbia, where the respondent had to seek medical care for his injured knee. The women were transported to a different place.