Croatia wrongly expels Nigerian athletes across the mountain in Bosnia

Abia Uchenna Aleksandro and Eboh Kenneth Chinedu, students of the Nigeria Technological University, arrived in Zagreb on November 12th to take part in a race in Pula, Croatia.

The 18-year-olds left Pula to go to Zagreb, following the tour they had to return to Lagos on 18 November. However, the night before they returned, while walking in the Croatian capital, they were stopped by police officers asking for IDs.

We tried to explain who we were and that our documents were in our cabin, but they listened to us at the police station,”, the ping pongist told Chinedou to the Bosnian Zurnal website, Periscopi.

We weren't paying attention, we didn't want to hear what we were saying. ”

Police thought they were paper-free immigrants, placed them in a nation and transferred them to the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina where, on that day, Croatian authorities gathered them together with a group of immigrants who had tried to cross the border into black. The police had ordered them to pass through the mountains to Bosnia.

I didn't want to go to the mountains. The cop said he'd kill me if I didn't. ”

Uchenna and Chinedu were later deported to Bosnia, where they ended up in the Velika Kladusha camp, along with thousands of other immigrants who sleep in tents. /Periscope