BiH citizens annoys OBSCENE CROATIAN publicans: What do you care where I go ?!
Border policemen sit in booths at the turn and control documents of passengers. If a vehicle or some of the people in it suspicious, followed by a detailed search of the vehicle.
Border crossing near Stara Gradiska by Juca 2013 is output from the European Union. Or input. It depends in which direction you are traveling. It is a border crossing Croatian and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Shortly after crossing into Bosnia and Herzegovina arrives in Banja Luka.
It is one of the places that are soon could be the external border of the Schengen area, which is Croatia in Brussels recently submitted a statement on the Government's readiness to start the Schengen evaluation, according to Al Jazeera.
Border policemen sit in booths at the turn and control documents of passengers. If a vehicle or some of the people in it suspicious, followed by a detailed search of the vehicle. Issue a statement saying the border police is prohibited, as well as close-up photography of control of passengers, including customs control.
Police are following every step
We got permission for shooting from a distance. It is illegal to taking statements from passengers at the border crossing. And to do any of this does not happen, caring cop who keep a close watch our step. Try communication with the driver of a car who transferred to the Croatian side immediately thwarted.
The procedure is known - first comes document control, then customs inspection. Some are to others, but the employees of customs control under the second administration, duties, powers ... police officers are, of course, the Ministry of Interior, and customs control under the Ministry of Finance.
There is no official communication with them no.
However, unofficially found out that the problem that they face is that as a rule, none of the passengers are not reported as transfers.
The most common violation entry of goods on which excise duty is paid, especially tobacco products. But some food, among others. As we discussed informally, in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a lower tax rate, so buy there and transported to Croatia.
Suspicious recognize thanks to the experience
Some vehicles shall be released without specific customs checks. There are people who go cross daily. However, a further control.
The point of experience, they say - a person something "sludge" or for some reason suspicious usually immediately notice. I apply additional screening measures. In addition to viewing every bus and luggage space. Passengers getting off a bus and moving one behind the other on the document control. Then wait for customs officers inspect a bus. Only then journey continues.
Photographing passengers patiently and with interest submitted. Maybe they talked about what they think about the strict control, we should ask them. Eyes policemen vigilantly follow us ...
Hard during the tourist season
However, not far from the border is the "police free" zone ... resting on the road through a nearby village where many take a break along the way. And really - passengers are chatty. They say they are rigorous when crossing into Croatia / EU does not bother too much. At least not at this time of year. Although some people sometimes turbulent reacting to verify. However, of those with whom we spoke, no one had really unpleasant experiences.
Šemsudin from Mostar crossing the border Croatian and Bosnia and Herzegovina four to five times a year. Working in Germany, often goes the family, so back to work.
"It is always hard, but now there are not many buses but not so much, but it certainly is a season ... a lot of bullying, stop, always problems. Especially in summer, when the season, more people travel. Thus far there are no crowds and you wait half an hour, so ", says Šemsudin.
"What do you care where I go"
Neither Senad from Tuzla, Professor of Mathematics and Mathematical Olympiad participant in 1991 in Beijing, and despite being unemployed, has nothing against border and customs control. But why bother him questions that he deems that no one should have the right to ask.
"Maybe a little a humiliation of human dignity. You know, if I travel, I pay for my ticket, documentation, and he asks me where you're going, you're going, who's going. I, for example, have in Germany, I'm divorced, wife and two children, every time I have to explain what I'm going, what I will be. So I want to be with my children as much as I want. It is in my opinion a violation of human dignity. Where are you going, what are you going? What do you care where I go ?! I have the correct documentation, has money and how much you are looking for so long, "says Senad.
Young Catherine is from Banja Luka. You often travels for studying in Austria. Neither Senad, there is nothing against the strict control. However, there are also the same objection as Senad.
"The guy, of 'where you're going, how will that be', even though they see that we have a visa and permanent residence, how much money you have in your wallet ... I mean, that really no one should ask," says Catherine.
"That, to be sure. I think this is a superfluous question, how you stay, which you are going, why are you going ... If I have the right to go over, why not be exceeded. Everyone has their own reasons for going, "agrees and her fellow citizen Jelica.
You must control, but also more respect
Others, however, believe that control is never enough. But the repressive apparatus, it seems, and they sometimes "rising nerve".
"I think it's still OK because they need some control and some supervision. Now, how professional, it will probably have to adjust, but I think needs to be control. I was a little bothered when picks up her passport so the way ... twitches, not that nice, but as a force and so. A little more decency, nothing more, a little more respect for the passengers, to anyone who passes, "said Ankica from Bugojno, who often travels with his wife, children in Zagreb and the Netherlands.
A similar opinion and Zdravko who, as he says, from Bosanska Gradiska often go "west" to visit friends.
"For my children just need it to know what it is, what the going and why. Why is there a limit, why is there a border police? Yes it can, then you would not have to will 'boundaries and that everyone is going to want. This time has come to and drugs, all live. I speak for my children, and not only his but completely our people, "says Zdravko.
Returning travelers due to too little money
Bus drivers, we met at mealtimes, say, however, that nothing special has changed Croatian accession to the EU, when it comes to control the border.
Viewing is, they say, always been rigorous and the same is that regardless of the enforcement of Schengen. But that, they say, implies that there can be one hundred percent. Sometimes it reviews all, once basic or anything.
"I can always watch everything, I can still watch all travelers. It would have taken a lot of time, which is logical. That's why they do it from time to time, as always, since otherwise the column was to Banja Luka or to Zagreb ", says Dragan.
In the rich experience they have seen, they say, everything. Unlike passengers we spoke with and who have not witnessed the embarrassing situations and disturbing actions of the police at the border, they are. People are sometimes not allowed to cross the border and because they do not have enough money with you - 400 euros.
"The traveler has some sort of, I do not know, there is a problem you can not pass. Or there is not enough money, there is something in the passport, the penalty is not paid or something. So there is always a reason you can not pass. This happens, return of passengers ", testified Zoran.
No comments traveler Senad, the police and it is a duty. Everything is in accordance with the law, and ordered not bother him, nor would an honest man should.
"If you are neat, nothing're not afraid. If you did not, for God's sake, not even in your house you can not live if you're not neat. An honest man does not need the police, "says Senad.
"There is nothing arbitrary, it is all fine and normal. The European Union, the European Union, I have no problem with that, "says his companion Zdravko.
- 24 Mar, 2015
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