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Beaten and imprisoned by Greek police

24.10.2019 Nea Vyssa Philoxenia 41.5810181, 26.5413055 Greece Turkey yes no yes no no no no 18 - 25 3 Morocco detention Unknown beating (with batons/hands/other), theft of personal belongings Greek police officers, non-uniformed men in balaclavas

The respondent crossed the Turkey-Greece border on the 24th of October, 2019 from the Turkish city of Edirne. The respondent was in a transit group with two other people from Morocco (group members aged 18, 22 and 25 years old). On route to the Greek village of Nea Vyssa, the transit group was stopped by two police officers. The respondent was able to identify the officers as part of the Greek police forces from their uniform. The officers violently beat the men in the transit group using batons. The beating from Greek police officers left the respondent as well as another man in the transit group with broken arms.

Arm broken by officers during apprehension, showing horizontal contusion.
The group was then taken to a facility described by the respondent as being like a prison and being very dirty. The transit group were not given any food during their detention in this site. Officers in balaclavas took the transit group back to the border of Greece-Turkey and pushed them back to the Turkish town of Uzunkopru. The officers took all possesions from the transit group  including money, clothes and mobile phones.