“Four or five times I’ve tried to cross the [Danube] river between Serbia and Croatia. Yesterday about 50 of us tried to cross – the water was up to my neck – and some got through. “In 2017, Serbia gave refugee status to just three people, and one of them already had subsidiary protection status. “Serbia is not so much a transit country now as a waiting room or a dumping ground,” he added. Serbia insists it is doing its best with limited resources to handle thousands of people who do not want to be here.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2018 00:00 UTC