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The men asked for asylum but the police rejected it, saying that capacities were full

Date & Time 2018-02-20
Location Tovarnik, Croatia
Reported by No Name Kitchen
Coordinates 45.1648822, 19.1522058
Pushback from Croatia
Pushback to Serbia
Taken to a police station unknown
Minors involved yes
WLTI* involved no
Men involved no
Age unknown
Group size 13
Countries of origin Afghanistan
Treatment at police station or other place of detention
Overall number of policemen and policewomen involved unknown
Violence used no violence used
Police involved Croatian police

A group of 13 men from Afghanistan (including 1 minor) crossed the Serbo-Croatian border near Sid by walking. During the night Croatian police caught them in the fields near the train station of Tovarnik. They had cameras and they commented to the men that they saw everything. There were 5 policemen. The men asked for asylum but the police rejected it, saying that capacities were full and that the camp was full. The police took a picture of every person and did not give them any papers. The police placed them in a police car and drove them back to the Serbian border near Sid.