Dramatically in the center of Sarajevo: Migrants beat and rob

The park across the Sarajevo City Hall, which has been a tent camp for migrants from the East for several months, is slowly becoming a danger, not only for them, but also for the neighborhood and the whole city.

Mutable jobs

Yesterday at about 16 o'clock in the park, there is a rather shocking scene. Six or seven migrants encircled an alien, had previously taken his wallet, shouted at him, and did not allow him to move away. A shocked alien tries to get rid of the mob, they go behind him, ask for more money, tell him that "bad men" (a bad man) is following him for some half a mile.

A photojournalist came to his aid, the stranger was so shocked, tried to defend himself with an umbrella, crossed the street ... Several bands flew out of the shop at Bachkarshi's tram station and dispersed migrants.
- This can no longer be tolerated. It is happening all the time - says Edin Osivcic, who apparently is not the first time to bring the migrants into line.

In the park, hundreds of migrants, mostly younger men, from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, from Pakistan, are told to tell us that another larger group is coming. There is also a family from Algeria. The park runs children, mostly three-year-olds or something older.

When volunteer Denis, who reportedly came from Germany and likes to tell the media that he makes sandwiches from morning to night, we ask why he did not protect the stranger who was attacked, very boldly tells us:

- Well, what can I do to them?

The other volunteer tries to break us in a conversation with one of Saraylia, who lives in a building that borders the park.

- There is no organization here, there are many sick people, there are many murky jobs here, we are no longer sure. Fights are constantly happening, nothing is known here. Believe me, come here, which volunteers, various calligraphers, give them medication, everything and everything. It has wounds, everything is so dirty, it threatens the epidemics and them and us, "he says.

While we were talking, some Sarajlies brought food. There is confusion, pushing, everything is on the edge of the incident. Bags and waiters are trampling and seizing.

The rain turned the park into mud, barefoot children walk along the remains of a flowerpot, and a tiny little boy appears in the tent every day that says in the Bosnian: Please, mark.

Asaf from Syria asks us what we are doing, why do not we help. We are pointing at the corner of the park, a few meters from the tent where sleeping huts are garbage, cardboard boxes from food, the remains of a salad ... we ask if they are afraid of the disease, why someone does not clean it. We ask and who threw the pieces of the baked bread into the flower garden ...

- I would clean it, but others will not. I only need these shoes for the summer. Number 42 - Answers.

There are drugs

Another neighbor is approaching us, says that there are many problems in the camp, nobody has the authority to solve this problem. She is sorry, admits refugees, but does not understand why they are so loud, what a constant quarrel, why they throw garbage under the windows, food they did not eat.

- Bring Sarajlija some time away, not to look after them. But do not misunderstand me, it seems that they are neither hungry nor thirsty. Honest to be, I'm a little scared. Simply everything happens in this park. They tell me these young people have drugs. Look at that group on the bench, they're the worst - warns us.

On the bench, one group is sitting, they seem to be the loudest, but in a moment, the problem begins again. Fights, fists ... One of the volunteers, who works with Denis, is sitting quietly on the wall and asking us why we do not stop the fight.

The police patrolly occasionally

We do not receive too many responses in the Sarajevo Canton Sarajevo Operational Center.

"The state has no opportunity to take care of these people," says the duty officer, adding that patrols occasionally passed by the park, but did not record anything serious.

He points out that the situation in the park is "under control".

- I'm sorry about that world. We were refugees too - says the duty officer.

When we ask him whether they know about the battles and thefts that happen, he is again responsible for us to do everything within their jurisdiction.

• 6 May, 2018
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