Serbia / Hungary border where migrants and refugees mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and North Africa awaits. January 2023.
Look that’s why I came
I’m sick. All my family started to work so we can pay doctors and medicines, but after several months, it’s just impossible, so I left. It’s either I die in Morroco or I die trying to come to Europe.
When my mom calls me, I lie saying everything is good. She doesn’t know I sleep outside, that police beat me and I’m running out of pills.
When I asked him where do you want to go, he answered: wherever I can have access to health.
Mehdi 21 years old from Casablanca
The more you say please, the more they hit you.
We tried to cross the border by night but they caught us. Everyone started to run and hide but the field is flat.
When they found me they pushed me down to the floor and dragged me to the others migrants. I was not moving and they started to hit me.
He hit me with a stick and kicked me so hard. The only English word I know is “please” but the more you say “please” the more they hit you.
I know it’s illegal to cross the border, but is it legal to beat us like that?
Thanks to @msf_fr and local NGOs, migrants, and refugees are getting medical help to cover police misconduct.
Everyone here has a story, a reason they have left. It’s most of the time a financial choice, sometimes an idea of the European comfortable life, or sometimes just out of despair. They all decided one day to risk it all and be brave enough to take the road. But what didn’t leave them is their culture : their hospitality, brotherhood and faith…
They insisted I eat with them “bent bledna” (sister of my country) here at the Serbian/Hungarian border.
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