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bank represents the human lines. you know what, these are 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 meet us. 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. and actually if we weren't paying for this reason, why do we take everything just gloves. the 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 ever us and the regional capital, i'll extend truthfully, is the university hospital forensics professor and medical examiner. pablo's lead 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 a 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 bought. we receive a lot more set requests from that from relatives. there is also austin level that that's the key. as 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 dead migraines, who can attend to our country and legally and like we fast examine them externally and describe that client gun with shoes except for one type of they have with some

type of books. we photograph them, then we remove the clouds and looks at personal offense and documents just in the here was one that that will help set them up with some kind of game and they got this little my thing there for me. the medical examiner had more cases in 2022 than ever before. most young man finally gave them the form that had is built on this side and the legs stay on the body lines here to sort of separate from this side all the out the we can talk to all of the examinations necessary for a proper old thompson somebody to solve the case, but if you want to get in, that is the best technical the region here is named after the ever us 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 you. but many attempt of crossing

never the less and die in the process. then this isn't. there shouldn't be any particularly hard cases for someone like me, me a. but when children are involved, it's more difficult for us going through the funeral director and his assistant has found the body. it seems other migrants have buried him in a shallow. i mean, it's close to the surface, the dashboard, it's pull it pull then yes, that's it for the oh

okay. that's actually a better. do you have any issues? no. the other microsoft and take that. okay. on the body of the dead man on some of his clothes now have to be taken to alex and truthfully so professor possibly this can examine the how old do you think i have his id phones are all that's left the

cost as pop of christmas 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. of the very bottom. this is where i watched the bodies and then put them in the refrigerator. yeah. what about the ones i brought 35 of them here after they drowned, and the address if i, dentist, occasion as possible, relative living in europe often come to pay their last respect here at the funeral

home. of his court clinic. it's very hard. they're crying, 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 for both the for i bring the body to turkey and it's transported home from there. i guess 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 evolution and that's the beginning of the process, a dangerous rather flat. it's broad and deep in monster. and so human smugglers don't allow microns to take any long gauge on both that but there's one enough on there now for us to we have several layers of clothing for the 2. well, 3 pounds of trousers o 5 shots that we will pick up on that long a that this has been to move this to bottom. we come up with just the slightest thing happens in the bottom cap sizes of nice thing with all of these kind of like dead wife to settle. so many people are crammed into the boats that they often tube over drowning is the most common cause of death. hypo stormy is the 2nd most common other depths are linked to exhaustion. the way none of these people are exhausted, have worked for many hours. that's simple, that's why there are other causes of database science drowning everybody skipped to

the person to be imagined. a man in the tired and way and talked to swimming across the river. yes and wearing we many lands of clothing for den takes a raft and left us on the most by government support. that's why hypothermia is the 2nd most common cause of death. people get but of course, that almost as some people with preexisting medical conditions they want to wear off of the blue dime from over exemption the those spots the app as it's already done. by the time the funeral director takes the remains from the forest to the hospitals institute for forensic medicine. professor pub lead is plans 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 cruise 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 of all that 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. you documents you no matter who your friends with family is always number one, pluck size. i was really looking forward to him coming. but of because the situation was also difficult for set are causing. finally, in a rock, the family decided to send his 14 year old brother to germany in fall 2021. across the everyone's route. these 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 end up 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. some of the causing got

a phone call in hanover shows. um it was the people smugglers set this up. you know, they said that something had 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 as soon as you could. won't 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 a missing migrants, all in vain. the internet is swirling with rumors, horror stories that are missing, migraines center got to be as offer as to find well how much body for 2000 zeros. he ignored them, hoping for a sign of life from his brother lessons from the hot. it's really difficult. myspace to,

for 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. stu, good morning. i'm just going to the next day, pablo's probably to is has to examine the bones from the forest. he's 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 because 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. of leaders 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 on a look at us and listen to them. i'm additionally looking at hancock on the bicycle, obligate like on a little ripple enough to on then the love seeing the see the cheekbones you will and the shape of the face of this one, this thing got the phone if there's a one month ago, i think i think there's a couple the account to risk sticks that you can easily recognizable music, particularly anything linked to bones. what or the excuse me or style? is there any chance that the remains found in the forest could be said, our car 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 what can you say? is there a fee, my phone, at least of the business go to 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. i also need one for anthropology, so 3 samples and all sorts of in

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 the 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. lee, but wait, we need order. so it's one but not the other. this one and this bring a bad stop 0 to seems to be can go well this one? yes. for the extra stop 789,

and the party from the other containing make 10. this one, this one here that makes 8 know there are 10. the labels fell off as it was being moved. you've already got this one here. 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 as far as to well storage. it's possible to estimate a person's size on the basis of the femur length. they inspect the bones to see if there were any fractures prior to death. to product yes, i'll take that to separate a 12 or so 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 i think all the bones well, 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 the 2nd level of solar center. let's we model there's ethical in this case. there are no signs of violence trying to dev level we rolled out found. but as far as we possibly can get better, stay to the body is such that it seems likely that all the medical problems led to his desk phone comfortable, 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 help. even after that, the man that's giving me the village on the line is fine, but if someone is dehydrated into time to walk about it, then they won't make it. finally, blah, 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 the greek police constantino's to like, he just 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 products such as the motor, just seeing the defense. it's an artificial barrier built to stop anyone who tries to cross the river to get to integrate that us. uh, it has a deterrent effect and i tell him just being a lover, it is an apple that if the cost 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 migraines to take a different route rather than preventing illegal crossings? does it just makes it more dangerous? or the no, i wouldn't say that much of the problem has always existed that will always migrants who died in the forest. so remote areas in the mountains is less obvious

blockage and minus the, the funeral director is on his way to the cemetery for an anonymous migrants. he's transporting 10 dead bodies recovered from the border zone. the advertisement come on that stuff. what number is that? 111622. okay, take it. when they arrive, volunteers have already done the grades. each one of attend 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 and sort of then a 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 with the demand, don't hurry, the task little stuff, 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 the body hasn't been identified for the meal. relatives couldn't ask the forensic sciences for the number and the rent

and parked here in alex. and truthfully, 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, because you still a child with things again because i would remember him for me. i think so. no, unfortunately, it doesn't ring any bells less than as you make outdoors in hanover seller costume, it still has no idea what happened to his brother. sometimes he would almost prefer to hear that his body had been found nice of it or so it wouldn't be easy

that service, but it would be better than not knowing. look here, sir, if we knew that he had died and could bury him soon, but then it would be clear as well as this. assume it is what it is secure. it's something we'd have to accept this on certain dangerous. i find that really, really awful. it's the worst thing for maintenance as a specialist has an impasse here in con 7 is tortured by the disappearance of his brother. regarding my friend doesn't matter what you do, you can't forget on that. unfortunately, it's simply a fact i fall far according to the international red cross, $541.00 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 center. with each passing day, it's ever less likely that his brother made it out of the river alive. so both men wish off, i haven't given up hope. and i want to come 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 ons, but we won't give up and as long as humanly possible. so by this case, the professor 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. it's good to, to feel to we have been experiencing it for 22 years now. altogether, unfortunately, the people dying i incline younger simone designs. the last thing, the only person that are the

center software is always a difficult topic. the score. but i'm a scientist, a hi, separate the professional and the emotional get. and i don't get emotions into pay it with my job because then that somebody puts in the bank of the month the funds. will there be a ceremony or no? a civil burial for gigi will someone kind of time yourself on this quarter? i have somebody 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 what are you doing? with 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, we're partners when his life over when you can't touch her, pulled your little plug in your soul, touch it. there is life after death, but just for the so long it doesn't have a body like so. it's invisible, with others our and then still in this defense again on the cemetery for the nameless dead, anonymous migrants at europe's border who will mourn them the

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