World News Online Information Update Report from Croatia, 17./18./19. Sep 2015

Report from Croatia, 17./18./19. Sep.

17.9. people are let trough on croatian-serbien border.
-police tried to set people behind fences at the border to wait for the
buses, people waited for very long times (14 h and more), bus
transporting went very slow, people disobeyed the police, broke the
fences and started moving

With Buses and trains people got transferred to open camps and
accommodations in: Vukovarsko – srijemska County (east), Osječko –
baranjska County (east), City of Zagreb, Sisačko – moslavačka County
(close to Zagreb)
From out those camps and accomodations and directly from the border
people are an the move to the borders with hungary (in the east) and
slovenia (in the north)

Croatian government says they can not afford the structure to keep
people and they will let them transit through croatia towards
west/north.
Since evening 18th, today (19th) people in the east are transferred
through hungary to austria.
Media says croatia and hungary made a pact for that channel. (not
verified for how long and how that pact looks like)
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Zagreb:
17.9 First people arrived in Zagreb around noon in the accommodation.
First the doors where closed, people inside rebelled and police opened
the doors. People moved to bus and train stations to go to slovenian
border. All people arriving later with buses and cars moved immediately
towards the bus/train stations or moved with taxis and cars. Supporting
people were there, spreading maps, giving basic infos/timetables of
transports.

18.9 Some thousand people where brought back in the night and morning
17/18.9 from slovenian border to zagreb.
People who where brought back started again moving during the day to the
border. Friday (18th) night there were people on several border
crossings waiting to enter Slovenia (Bregana/Obrezje and
Harmica/Dubove). There was a lot of Slovenian Police who didnt let them
enter.
19.9 Camp in Zagreb, Porin is empty. Camp in Zagreb, Velesajam is not so
full either. Buses bring people from there to the border. They are
expecting new people. Trains from Tovarnik are coming towards Zagreb.

Slovenia, Cro-Slo Border:
18.9 Around 100 people are in detention in Postojna, Slovenia. They are
very scared of what will happen to them. Lot of people are moving around
the border areas. People started to go towards and along the river
(Sutla river) which marks the border of cro/slov there, up north
There are only a little croatian police and they are very calm.
Slovenian side is more of a problem for the people.
19.9 Buses started to pick up people at the borders and bring them to
Slovenia. They bring them to different cities, mostly to Maribor and
Celje. People are brought to open camps. A lot of people move already in
Slovenia towards border with Austria. For now the border to austria is
open, train from Celje and Vienna goes and small groups manage to enter
Austria

For update from Slovenia look (slovenian and english language) facebook
of 'Protirasistična fronta brez meja' and https://twitter.com/BrezMeja

Bordercrossing Harmica/Dubove
18.09.
Migrants and supporters gathered friday at the border crossing at
Harmica demanding free movement into the schengen era, into Slovenia.
Croatian border opened between 19.00/20.00. Slovenian police blocked
people and won't let them enter. People protested with banners, singing,
holding speeches and shouting slogans. Police used tear-gas around
22.00. After this again calm. People are staying on the bridge between
the border points. Slovenian police changed shifts and put up fences.
Food, Water and Tents are there.
19.09.
In the morning of the 19th people report that buses came and slowly
start taking people. First they took families. After they took only
women and children and separated the men from their families, but they
are saying they will pick up everyone.
Until now saturday (19.9. - 17:40) only 3 buses came.
People are still protesting.

Border crossing Bregana/Obrezje
In the morning 19.9. buses came to Bregana and started slowly to take
women and children. It seems that the buses are not leaving any more. On
18.9 and during the night there was no infrastructure in Bregan: no
water/food or any supplies, people waited long, police also didn't
cooperate in emergency cases and rather ignored the life threatening
conditions. As far as we heard a baby died there in the night from 18th
to 19th. This is another death caused by borders and while police is
watching.
Since the morning the situation in Bregana got better: Volunteers put up
tents, there is water and food. It's crowded but situation is ok.
Since around 17.00 no more buses leave from Bregana. First buses only
took children and women.

Situation in East of Croatia, Cro-Ser Border:
We heare there are around 4.000 people on the serbian side of the border
(not verified number).

It seems that all the smaller border crossings on Serbian- Croatian
border are closed ( Ilok, Ilok2, Principovac, Principovac 2, Batina,
Erdut). Bajakovo (boarder crossing by Tovarnik) seems to be the only
open one.
At 3:50 pm (19.9) the croatian police states: From 17.9 on until 19.9
1.a.m. approximately 21 000 migrants entered Croatia. The largest
arrival of migrants to Croatia is still through Tovarnik, where, at the
moment, are around 2500 migrants.

Some People in the camps in the eastern regions of croatia (Tovarnik,
Vukovar, Beli Manasti and so on) got transferred through hungary towards
austria by train. We dont know how many people, but we heared that
they are brought to different places in austria and that a lot of people
are in Sankt Gotthard. The official statement of the police is saying
that the transport to hungary is organized. We don't know how this
really looks like and how many people they take and if they only take
“vulnerable” people (as reported by the media).

There are constantly more people coming, also towards the camps in the
east. There are still a lot of people in the camps. Information from
there is that infrastructure is not working good. There is not enough of
anything (food, water, sleeping places). Supplies are coming but
distribution is stuck. Local community doesnt know how to handle the
situation, they are missing on more people.


Situation in South of Croatia:
People come through Bosnia to Dubrovnik. We dont know more about this
for now. We will try to get further information.


The Situation is changing constantly. Stay informed. We try our best to
update reports.

Apart from monitoring, reporting and sharing information, presence at
the border is needed to organize solidarity and to avoid or intervene in
police violence.

Also if people have possibilities to go to the east of croatia, help is
needed, monitoring is important.