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Europe's Violent Shadow Army Unmasked ---- Mysterious men wearing balaclavas are beating up refugees at the external EU border or abandoning them at sea. Months of reporting now reveals who is behind the operations.
spiegel.de/international ^ | July 10, 2021

Posted on 10/09/2021 8:41:59 AM PDT by elpadre

You can hear the blows before you can see them. The noise of blunt objects striking arms, legs and backs filters through the thick shrubbery on the border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. People screaming in pain, gasping and whimpering. Anzeige

Powerful men in dark uniforms are standing on the Croatian side of the border on this hot June day. They are battering Afghans and Pakistanis who have come to Europe to apply for asylum.

All of the men are wearing balaclavas; one of them has also donned black sunglasses. Their uniforms bear no insignia to ensure that they are completely unrecognizable. They are completely unaware that just a few meters away, hiding behind just a couple of bushes and trees, two reporters are filming their every move.

The videos document how these masked men chase 22 refugees out of the European Union, forcing them back into Bosnia-Herzegovina. One of the masked men swings again and again with his club, aiming at the legs of the migrants and making them stumble into the chest-deep border river. He then raises his arm in a threatening gesture and yells: "Go! Go to Bosnia!"

Human rights experts refer to such operations as pushbacks, and they are illegal, violating both EU law and the Geneva Refugee Convention. The deportation of migrants must not put them in danger and once they have reached European territory, they must be given the opportunity to apply for asylum. And beating defenseless people is prohibited anyway.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alexanderepp; andreipopoviciu; balaclavas; bashardeeb; bosnia; croatia; dersoygel; derspiegel; europe; europeanunion; genevaconvention; giorgoschristides; herzegovina; immigration; interventionpolice; interventnapolicija; jacksapoch; klaasvandijken; lamiaabi; letsgoderspiegel; nicolevgele; pakistan; phevossimeonidis; pushback; pushbacks; rafiqatschannen; rafiqtschannen; steffenldke
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1 posted on 10/09/2021 8:41:59 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: elpadre

So, what’s the problem?


2 posted on 10/09/2021 8:44:26 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

Ditto. Can these guys handle the mexico border?


3 posted on 10/09/2021 8:45:45 AM PDT by Ikeon (You are nothing more than a bounty to your neighbors. )
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To: elpadre

Can we get some help along our borders?


4 posted on 10/09/2021 8:46:41 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: elpadre

A lesson for citizens of the USA?


5 posted on 10/09/2021 8:46:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: elpadre

Could use some of that over here


6 posted on 10/09/2021 8:46:48 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: elpadre

Same story on Screw Tube. At least there’s no “Accept” pop up that’ll leave who knows what behind.

https://youtu.be/T0x-vZeSX84


7 posted on 10/09/2021 8:48:43 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: dynachrome; elpadre; Ikeon; ExGeeEye; Lurkinanloomin; Marko413

Sounds like some little Eurosoy gerbilist haz got The Sadz over what should happen to Musloid invaders.


8 posted on 10/09/2021 8:48:52 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: elpadre

Sounds good to me. Can we import a few hundred of them for the southern border? I’ll chip-in $10 for airfare.


9 posted on 10/09/2021 8:50:02 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: elpadre

Interesting that Muslim refugees want out of the Muslim friendly country of Bosnia and, somehow, the Croatians and Greeks, who have a history of abuse by Muslims, are supposed to welcome them.


10 posted on 10/09/2021 8:50:13 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: elpadre

“....Pushbacks used to be isolated incidents, Alexiou claims. He says the Turkish coast guard would intercept most of the boats as a part of the deal that the European Union signed with Turkey. But in March of 2020, Turkey briefly stopped intercepting refugees. Alexiou says that for this reason, the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis adopted a tougher line.

Since then, he says, special units and other security forces have been charged with pulling the asylum-seekers back out to sea and abandoning them on life rafts. In the videos shown to him by DER SPIEGEL, he is able to definitively identify the special units......”


11 posted on 10/09/2021 8:50:37 AM PDT by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: elpadre

Borders and Refugees - bump for later....


12 posted on 10/09/2021 8:51:22 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: elpadre

Q-anon, proudboyz, boogaloo boyz, Trumpsters?


13 posted on 10/09/2021 8:52:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: elpadre

Do those guys need anything? Water? Pizza? Good on them.


14 posted on 10/09/2021 8:53:05 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: dynachrome

GOOD, do they take old people in their “corp”?

This battle is as old as humanity. Stupid Geneva refugee convention anyway. It was designed to control governments, yet they get away with all they want. People? Now they are the target and always have been. Look what the US has done to those who entered the Capitol building with the assent of security. Then a guy protecting his car from being stolen has his property taken because it looks too deadly. Who do laws protect? Answer is nobody, unless they are followed precisely by all parties and ONLY by the consent of the Governed.


15 posted on 10/09/2021 8:54:26 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: elpadre

I often wonder, in 1683, if the Turks had cried that they ONLY wanted refuge if the gates of Vienna would have been opened to them.

I wonder if German and Japanese armies, in 1941-1945, if they were in Mexico, had rushed the border with the US crying “REFUGE!” would the US have allowed them in?


16 posted on 10/09/2021 8:55:20 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? )
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To: dynachrome

Muslim refugees should go to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other Muslim countries. Period. The Saudis, etc have plenty of room and money!
This is just another invasion of the west by muslims.


17 posted on 10/09/2021 8:55:49 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: elpadre
The krauts who caused this problem with Merkel's invitation to immigrants to float or swim their way into the EU now expects the border states like Italy, Greece and Croatia to foot the bill.

The same accusations are now being made against Poland because Byelorussia is pushing migrants they invited into Poland.

Screw the Germans.

18 posted on 10/09/2021 9:00:09 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Their uniforms bear no insignia to ensure that they are completely unrecognizable. They are completely unaware that just a few meters away, hiding behind just a couple of bushes and trees, two reporters are filming their every move.
Phase two? They unrecognizable border defenders will take care of the two reporters, and for good measure, their employer.

19 posted on 10/09/2021 9:02:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (...damfool thing in the Balkans...)
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To: elpadre

Illegal immigrants.
Nothing wrong with immigrants, the problem is ILLEGALS.


20 posted on 10/09/2021 9:03:54 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the Whore, leaders of the Free world. ( F-you dementia Joe.))
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