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Greece: Migrants claim Macedonian police 'tortured' them for eight hours
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23.03.2016
A group of Moroccan migrants staying at the refugee camp near Idomeni claimed on Wednesday to have been beaten up and tortured by Macedonian police and soldiers after crossing the Greek-Macedonian border earlier in the week.
Describing the incident, one migrant named Najib said: "We walked and crossed the borders, the soldiers caught us, they took us to a building, into a small room. The soldier hit me here [pointing at forehead] with his knee then we were taken back to the border, at around 3:30 pm."
"Maybe about 15 of them, holding long sticks. And then one by one they hit us with their sticks. They tortured us a lot. They hit us here and here [points to parts of body]. One hit me here with his knee, I was unconscious for a whole hour. They treated us like animals. Those Macedonians are no humans at all, those beasts," he added.
Another migrant named Muhsin claimed the Macedonian authorities had destroyed the migrants' paperwork. "They left us in that room for eight hours without any food. We cannot go back now, there is no going back for us. We lost everything trying to come here to Europe, but we cannot enter Europe. Now we cannot go back, they destroyed our papers, they tore them, our passports are gone, we have nothing anymore," he said.
Around 35,000 refugees and migrants are currently trapped in Greece, according to the UNHCR.
Describing the incident, one migrant named Najib said: "We walked and crossed the borders, the soldiers caught us, they took us to a building, into a small room. The soldier hit me here [pointing at forehead] with his knee then we were taken back to the border, at around 3:30 pm."
"Maybe about 15 of them, holding long sticks. And then one by one they hit us with their sticks. They tortured us a lot. They hit us here and here [points to parts of body]. One hit me here with his knee, I was unconscious for a whole hour. They treated us like animals. Those Macedonians are no humans at all, those beasts," he added.
Another migrant named Muhsin claimed the Macedonian authorities had destroyed the migrants' paperwork. "They left us in that room for eight hours without any food. We cannot go back now, there is no going back for us. We lost everything trying to come here to Europe, but we cannot enter Europe. Now we cannot go back, they destroyed our papers, they tore them, our passports are gone, we have nothing anymore," he said.
Around 35,000 refugees and migrants are currently trapped in Greece, according to the UNHCR.
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