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the bank represents a human log in the a few kilometers from the turkish greek border. the police got a tip off. there was a body in the forest. now cost us public research to read is the local funeral director has been given the job of recovering the remains with these colleagues. a police officer, let's get started before it starts the nice area actually. if we weren't paying for this reason of

the course of the day, we take everything just gloves. one route taken by migrants trying to get from turkey to the european union, passes through the forest of the everest region. most migrants travel in groups. this disused shed seems to have served as a makeshift shelter. the sleeping bags looked as if they'd been abandoned in panic . cruising from turkey to greece is illegal for migrants without a visa. they hide from the police and they try to make their way through this difficult terrain to leave the border behind them. the, the funeral director has no idea what conditions the body is in. it's over here. not far from the everest and the regional capital. i'll extend, truthfully, is the university hospital forensics professor and medical examiner,

pablo's probably to his works here. all the migrants bodies found here are brought to him after sting that wasn't enough. in the last 22 years, i've seen about 610 bodies on the greek side alone sort of the radically hypothetically, we could say that there are just as many deadlines on the package side. and so we're talking about 12021500 people sort that at the pacific. i get the not we receive a lot more set requests from that from relatives. there is also austin level that that's the key the forensic scientist works on behalf of the state. he doesn't just determine the cause and time of dash, most of the migrants aren't carrying any form of id. so we also tries to identify them that they often will. i'm a likely, in the case of debt micro and their team to our country legally. and like we 1st

examined them externally and describe that client gun with shoes. it's a call once after they have with them from the books got we photographs, and then we remove the clouds and look the personal offense and send documents just in here as well. but that will help set them up with some kind of game. and i got this all my time there for me. the medical examiner had more cases in 2022 than ever before. most young man finally do the form. the head is on this side and the legs stay on the body line. see if this was separate from this side all the way conduct told the examinations necessary for a proper or thompson, somebody to solve the case. but if you want to get the videos to present the cool the region here is named after the arrows, the river on the border between greece and turkey. the external border of the e u. the frontier is heavily guarded. since 2020

a fence has been steadily growing along the length of the river, the barrier is meant to keep migrants out of the u. but many attempt of crossing never the less and dying in the process. then that's what they said inputting this. there shouldn't be any particularly hard cases for someone like me . but when children are involved it small, difficult, far as going through the funeral director and his assistants have found the body. it seems other migrants have buried him in a shallow grave. as close to the surface, the backwoods. pull it, pull of the cause of his name. yes. that's it. false. that was oh

okay, that's actually a better method. do you have any shoes? no. the other migrants often take them okay. on the body of the dead man. and some of his clothes now have to be taken to alex and truthfully, so professor possibly to is, can examine them. the how old do they do? i have his id, phones are all that's left with the

cost as papa craigslist to meet us, stops off at his funeral home. he built up the business together with his family. he also deals with ordinary cases, but nowadays recovering dead bodies from the border mix up a large part of his work. this is where i wash the bodies and then put them in the refrigerator. yeah, for the ones i brought 35 of them here after they drowned in the ambrose. if

i, dentist, occasion as possible, relative living in europe often come to pay their last respect here at the funeral home. just called the clinic. it's very hard. they're trying, they're all crying. can you imagine that if you just kindly travel so far to either pick up the body of a dead relative or to bury them here to bow tie before i bring the body to turkey and it's transported home from there because the court it's a family can't afford to have their loved ones body repatriated. it is buried here in a cemetery, especially set up for muslims who come from elsewhere. their countries of origin are inscribed on their grades, somalia, afghanistan, syria, people of all ages. many of the grades are fresh, the

what makes this border so dangerous. the river looks harmless. it's shallow in many places. but that most of us and then there's a big deal of the ambrose. there's a dangerous red color for that. it's broad and deep and palms, and so the human smugglers don't allow microns to take any long drawn volt that, but there's one in that for now. now falls to with several layers of clothing for the 2. well, 3 pounds of trousers o 5 shots, the long a that this has been to move this the bottom and grow up. we'll get just the slightest thing happens in the bug cap sizes of nice things with all of these kind of like dead white spots at all. so many people are crammed into the boats that they often tube over drowning is the most common cause of death. hypothermia is the 2nd most common, other depths are linked to exhaustion. the way none of these people are

exhausted, have works for the many hours. that's what the last, why there are other causes of doubt, but besides drowning, everybody's skipped to the level of this. imagine a man in the tired and way i talked to swimming across the river. yes. and wearing many lands of clothing for the intake to rent on the post by government support. that's why hypothermia is the 2nd most common cause of death kept okay, but of course there or so some people with preexisting medical conditions they want to wear off with a blue dying from over exemption will spot the this is already done by the time the funeral director takes the remains from the forest to the hospitals institute for forensic medicine. professor pub latest plants to forensically examine the bones the next morning. the remains are stored at 0 degrees celsius and a more refrigerator. who was this person? who might be looking for them?

in hanover, save of ca, c is trying to trace his younger brother. he's a crew who fled to germany in 2015 after the war broke out in syria. he's just finished training to be a truck driver. the rest of his family sled to a rock along with his brother mohammed have all they have what he was very good in school. and so he always ranked 1st or 2nd and we wanted to offer him a better life. and that was also my goal home and see if it's impossible to put into words for indescribable sense. we are very close to one another on the

spot because i was very lonely the whole time. i have a lot of friends, but still, but it's nothing like being brothers enough money. no matter who your friends with family is always number one plus ours. i was really looking forward to him coming. but of because the situation was also difficult for set. our ca seems finally in a rock, the family decided to send his 14 year old brother to germany in fall 2021. across the everest route, the visa and just like everyone else was with the people smuggler or on foot with a boat and illegally because it's not possible to do it legally, which i know. and anyway, we didn't have any documents in syria oceans. you then got in october 2021

mohammed got in touch from turkey and said that he was planning to cross the atlas river with a group of others. on the 21st of october 2021 instead of causing got a phone call in hanover shows. um it was the people smugglers up is up. you know, they said that something that happened and that mohammed had fallen into the waters and they said they waited but couldn't find him initially. that was a line. then we found out that they hadn't waited and simply carried on to finish them out. they were frightened because what they were doing was illegal. and then i and i said any gardner, he flew to greece to ever us to look for his brother. he had his dna registered back at home. he scoured facebook, visiting search platforms for missing migraines. all in vain. the internet is swirling with rumors, horror stories that are missing migrants center got to be as offer as to find well how much body for 2000 years. he ignored them, hoping for

a sign of life from his brother. this is from ha, it's really difficult, misplaced before it gets hard to put out of your mind. because no matter how long the wait long of but she'll f, i hope it'll end. well. good morning. i'm just going to the next day, pablo's probably to is has to examine the bones from the forest. he has already received instructions from the state prosecutor's office. the forensics professor has been the medical examiner for the ambrose region for 22 years. he gets inquiries from all over the world, from people desperate to find out what is become of their loved ones, asking whether he had identified them among the bodies recovered from the boarder regence. they send photos,

videos taken shortly before the crossing spots by the river, where the missing person was last seen at the latest is not permitted to respond directly until he has verified the identity of the person. making the inquiry, say about a kind of scene from hanover has sent him the photo of his missing brother mohammed, or they look at us and listen to them. i'm initially looking at hand kind of lexical, obligate, like on a little ripple enough to and then the love seeing the see the cheekbones, you what the shape of the face of this one is. think of something that phone compared with one month ago. i think i think there's a couple the account to restricts that you can easily recognizable music, particularly anything linked to bones. what or the scarcity or style? is there any chance that the remains found in the forest could be so far?

ca seems brother. the examination begins of the full so god what was the time and cause of death? are there any clues about the identity of the deceased? the more intact the body is the better. for the whole thing, the walking you see? is there a fee my phone, at least of the there's no scope the for the wrong button. and there are many missing bones. pablo's probably just takes dna samples from one they are stored here and in

a central database in athens. and i also need one for anthropology, so 3 samples and all the forensic scientist and his assistant interrupt their work. when the funeral director arrives at the hospital, the dead are stored in refrigerator containers, outback. 10 bodies are scheduled for burial. they couldn't all be identified. cost as public research to meet is, has to take the right ones. the smell of the composition hangs in the year. they all want to get it over with as quickly as possible. the mood is tense late, but wait, we need order. so it's one but not the other. this one and this should bring a bad stop 0 c, w 260 b can go well this one. yes,

x is 789, and the body from the other containing make 10. this one. this one here. that makes 8. no, there are 10. the labels fell off as it was being moved. you've already got this one here. at the funeral director takes the unidentified bodies to the cemetery for nameless migrants in the regions north. the professor continues to examine the remains from the floor in the back jogging pants of them. i hate this too well storage. it's possible to estimate a person's size on the basis of the theme or length. they inspect the bones to see if there were any fractures prior to death to product. yes, i'll take that to separate love for song. after 20 minutes,

the examination is over and it's time to make final preparations. the 1st and personal it's a young man about 20 years old or self, so suddenly having all the goals. and i think it was that goes with this with a know a young man died in the forest close to the border. maybe he was probably traveling with a group of migrants after philip. was he injured? perhaps during a violent altercation? that wouldn't be unusual and people say, and then simply left behind us the 2nd level of our center. let's remember, is that the call in this case there are no signs of violence prior to death level. we rolled out found quite as far as we possibly can to get better. stay to the body is such that it seems likely that all the medical problems lead to his dance use us for phone, talk at all possible if possible, that the cause of death was organ,

failure, or hyperglycemia. the remains were found just a few kilometers from a village. the medical examiner is not surprised that the young man didn't make it that far. or that nobody from the group went for health. enough is up on me and i was giving the village and i was fine. but if someone is dehydrated into time to walk about it, then they won't make it found it. bla la. these people avoid the villages because they're afraid they'll have to move it to the police and they hide from the police because they're afraid of being arrested. for one that i'm missing the phone in, the border zone is closely monitored and is off limits for the public. it's guarded by front techs on behalf of the e. u. and by degree police. constantino's collect cutest comes from the everest region. he can remember a time when the river was more accessible. the building of the border fence started

in 2020. it's 5 meters high and some 38 kilometers long. and it's being steadily extended. more of a fortification, an offense or product, this motor, just seeing the defense. it's an artificial diarrhea built to stop anyone who tries to cross the river to get in degrees. but as it has a deterrent of time, i've just been a lover. this is an apple that if the car but the ambrose is almost 200 kilometers long in total. and in woodland areas, it's not so easy to erect a barrier on the river bank as it is here. does the construction of such fortifications, simply prompt migrants to take a different route rather than preventing illegal crossings? does it just makes it more dangerous? or here to help the no,

i wouldn't say that that's the problem has always existed that we're always migrants who died in the far as so remote areas in the mountains is best office. a couple marketing minus the, the funeral director is on his way to the cemetery for anonymous migrants. he's transporting 10 dead bodies recovered from the border zone. the last one come on that stuff. what number is that? 1? 16. 22. okay, take it. when they arrive, volunteers have already done the grades. each one of the 10 deceased migraines has a grave marked with a number of great state, pays the burial costs. it's

a distressing task. is there a number here? yes, 7. $6122.00 will be paid for this. the buyer cover the body as soon as i'm going to transport them and then i bring them here to go. but for these people who died, you have still been eligible, isn't it? a petty then agree by the demand don't hurry, the task, little stuff, but they checked the numbers of each individual body and the number of each grade then the burial takes place. the

wasn't shown, i don't know who's lying there is a body hasn't been identified for the meal. relatives can ask the forensic scientist for the number to run it. smart here in alexandria police, it's now clear that the body found in the forest cannot be so far as missing brother. the age didn't match and the medical examiner has also ruled out that 14 year old mohammed is among the unidentified bodies found earlier eh, kevin, who, you're still a child. seemed to have a good. i would remember him for me. i think so. no, unfortunately, it doesn't ring any, but let's and then as you make our doors in hanover, seller costing, it still has no idea what happened to his brother. sometimes he would almost prefer

to hear that his body had been found lice. it is, oh worse, it wouldn't be easy that service, but it would be better than not knowing. look here. so if we knew that he had died and could bury him soon, but then it would be clear as well as this. plus here it is what it is secure, it's something we'd have to accept. what this on certainly gives us heard. i find that really, really awful. it's the worst thing for managed. russian says wanna pass, your income is tortured by the disappearance of his brother. because of him doesn't matter what you do, you can't forget that unfortunately, it's simply a fact are far, far according to the international red cross, 541 migrants are classed as missing. and greece, people whose friends and loved ones are desperate to find out what has happened to them. just like said i, with each passing day, it's ever less likely that his brother made it out of the river alive. troubles

most often. i haven't given up hope. and i want to move until we know one way or another, because no matter how long it takes a must have it. sometimes we feel we can't go on so that we won't give up and as long as humanly possible. so by this case, the producer pablo's privileges is on his way to the state prosecutor's office. he has 52 open cases at the moment. a sense of duty won't let him close them yet. and he fears they will more in the winter. even it's good to to feel so we have been experiencing it for 22 years now. altogether, unfortunately, the people dying i incline younger simone designs the same. the only person that i

have the center software is always a difficult topic. viscado. but i'm a scientist. my separate the professional and the emotional shift and i don't get emotions into pay it with my junk book. then at the end of the month, the funds. will there be a ceremony with no a civil burial for? did you give you will someone kind of time yourself on the floor that someone used to say a prayer for the dead of us? not anymore. did you say it or do you like got a religious leader? why did it and daughter,

your name is your own getting on my nerves. now that if you sit in your offices and think you're something special about after about 20 minutes, all the bodies have been buried. the fact that the funeral director believes in life after death isn't any comfort for him. at that moment. rebecca, when his wife over when you can't touch her, pulled your logo, plug in your soul, touch it. there is life after death, but just for the soul want it doesn't have a body like so. it's invisible without him. and then stillness defends again on the cemetery for the nameless dead. anonymous migrants at europe's board a who will mourn them? the

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