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Human traffickers have earned a billion Euros

Balkan trafficking route again has “goods” for trafficking. This time it is the people of Syria. For promised Germany, Syrian refugees, only from the beginning of the year, have paid Turkish traffickers from a half to one billion Euros. Ahmed Kelani, teacher from Syria, paid $ 700 per person for the transfer of his family via Turkey. “I paid 5,600 Euros for my family of 6 members with two...

Lojane is no longer mecca for human traffickers

In Kumanovo the situation was more relaxed. First we stopped at the railway station. An employee in Macedonian Railways named Viktor informed us that the train would be in Kumanovo in half an hour, and in about 40 minutes at the border crossing point Tabanovce. We went to Tabanovce by car. As we passed the mandatory procedure for checking documents and permission to shoot, the train was already on...

On the road with migrants: Germany via Gevgelija

The southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija has been synonymous with gambling for the past few years. But gamblers’ paradise turned into hell for hundreds of thousands of refugees and Macedonian policemen. Early morning, 4 o’clock. The train station in Gevgelija like a beehive. Migrants and refugees who want to reach their El Dorado, Germany via Macedonia, awaiting transport to the promised land. Mutual anxieties and squabbles stop when the...