Table tennis players were initially removed from Croatia, despite that they had visasTwo Nigerian student table tennis players wrongly deported to Bosnia by Croatian police who mistook them for undocumented migrants have finally returned home, according to Bosnian media. “We tried to explain that our passports were in the hostel and that we had a regular visa, but they [the police] paid no attention to what we were saying,” Chinedu told the Bosnian website Žurnal. “We want to go back to Nigeria,” Chinedu said last week. “Those people are victims of illegal acts on the Croatian side,” Dragan Mektić, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s minister of security, told al-Jazeera. When asked why they allegedly deported the Nigerians to Bosnia, knowing that they had entered Croatia legally with a flight to Zagreb, the Croatian police denied stopping the men, suggesting the students had voluntarily missed their return flight.

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2019 12:01 UTC