🧵CW: violence
Another #pushback case in Greece, this time with a difference. Ezrat, an Afghan man with refugee status who lives in Thessaloniki was kidnapped, beaten and pushed back to Turkey at #Evros. 1/
Another #pushback case in Greece, this time with a difference. Ezrat, an Afghan man with refugee status who lives in Thessaloniki was kidnapped, beaten and pushed back to Turkey at #Evros. 1/
In 08/2021 he & 3 friends went to a house at the village of Kimmeria nr Xanthi to pay ransom for his nephew, held by a smuggling network. 2 police officers arrived, beat Ezrat & his friends, handcuffed them & drove them to a detention site nr Xanthi in a car with 🇧🇬 plates. 2/
They were stripped and detained for two days. Then the police took them to the border near Soufli, beat them again, took a video of them (interesting – why?) and threw them in the river handcuffed. 3/
Ezrat returned to 🇬🇷 from 🇹🇷 after a lawyer went to Istanbul with Ezrat’s papers, which he had left in the car. The twist: Ezrat works as an interpreter for the police & courts. He complained to Internal Affairs & identified 5 officers involved in the smuggling network. 4/
Internal Affairs sent the case to the prosecutor, who sent it back for the police officers to be interviewed as suspects. More than a year after, the case is still with Internal Affairs. Ezrat meanwhile has been threatened by police officers whom he knows through his work. 5/
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