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the engagement 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 meet 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 will not if we weren't paying for this reason of

the course of do 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 shad seems to have served as a makeshift shelter. the sleeping bags look as if they'd been abandoned in panic. cruising from turkey to greece is a legal 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 condition the body is in. it's over here. not far from the ever us and the regional capital alex and truthfully is the university hospital forensics professor and medical examiner.

pablo's lead to his works here. all the migrants bodies found here are brought to him. after thinking that within 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 of them. so we're talking about 12021500 people. so that the pacific i get bought, 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 are 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. my grand to pertain to our country legalese and like we 1st

examined, i'm externally and describe that client gun with shoes. it's called what type of i have with them from the books we photographed them. so then we remove that clouds and look the personal offense and documents just in here, whereas on with that will help set them up with some kind of game. and i got this little of my time 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 conduct all day 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 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 to crossing never the less and die in the process. then this isn't fucking this, but there shouldn't be any particularly hard cases for someone like me. but when children are involved in small, difficult, far as going through the funeral director and his assistant have found the body. it seems other migrants have buried him in a shallow grave. give me a good. it's close to the surface. the reason is that what it's pull it, pull then yes,

that's it for the oh, good. okay, that's actually a better. do you have any shoes? snow the other migrants often take okay. on the body of the dead man and some of his clothes now have to be taken to alex and truthfully. so professor pa leaders can examine them. the how old are they to have his id phones are all that's left. the

cost as pop of christmas to meet us, stops off at his funeral home and build 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, horrible. that's whenever we're going to, once i brought $35.00 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. this is this good plan. it's very hard, they're trying, they're all crying. can you imagine that if you're just kindly travel so far, to either pick up the body of a dead relative or to bury them here to lower 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 must have ocean and that's the beginning of the process. a dangerous rather flat. it's broad and deep in bonds. and so human smugglers don't allow microns to take any long gauge on both that, but that wasn't enough on there. now, for us to, with several layers of clothing for the 2 or 3 pounds of trousers o 5 shots that we will pick up on the long day that this has been to move this to 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. the that's what the last wind there are, other causes of death, but besides drowning everybody's gifts at the football bush and imagine a man in the tide and went and talked to swimming across the river. yes. and wearing, with many lands of clothing for i do then take the raft and that was all it was picked up on the support. that's why hypothermia is the 2nd most common cause of death certificate. but of course, there are also some people with preexisting medical conditions they want to wear off of the blue dying from over exemption spots the and it's already done by the time the funeral director takes the remains from the forest to the hospitals institute for forensic medicine professor pest 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 cosi, 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, 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

slide 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, pluck size. i was really looking forward to him coming. but of this 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 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 finish. i know. and anyway, we didn't have any documents in syria as you hung 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 2 people smugglers. that's is up to they said that something had happened and that mohammed had fallen into the waters and by the time 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 arrows 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 migrants 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. a 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 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 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 on a look at us and listen to them. i'm initially looking at hancock from wescal object like on a low ripple enough to on then the love seeing the see the cheekbones knew what the shape of the face of this one this thing got the phone cause of one month ago. i think i think there's a couple the account to restricts that you can easily ranking up as well. maybe the particularly anything link to bones were or the excuse me all 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 the business go to the for the and there are many missing bones. pablo's probably just takes dna samples from one they are stored here and, and

a central database in athens. and 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 of 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 decomposition 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. yes. 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. 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 for a lot of the black junction pants, the test 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. i guess i'll take that to separate workforce. so after 20 minutes,

the examination is over and it's time to make final preparations. the 1st impersonal it's a junk mail about 20 years old. will solve so suddenly i think all the bones and i think it was that goes with this with a know a young man died in the forest close to the border menu. 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 similar center. remember, is that the goal 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 comfort. 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 help. nephews up a man that's good. i think the village, i'm glad to spine, but if someone is dehydrated into time to walk about, then they will make it the phone. it least 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. n. by degree police constantino's to like he just comes from the everest region. he can't 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 isn't all to official 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. 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 migraines to take a different route rather than preventing illegal crossings? does it just makes it more dangerous? or, you know,

i wouldn't say that much of the problem has always existed that were always migrants who died in the forest. so remote areas in the mountains is best obvious blockage and 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 on that stuff. what number is that? 116. 22. okay, take it. when they arrive, volunteers have already done the graves. 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 and we'll go from there? yes. and i the $6122.00 will be getting paid for this by recover the body. and so then i 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 pity, then agree with the demand, don't hurry. the task will be 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 scientist for the number to read and parked here in alexandria police. it's no 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, can you still a child with him 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 that

is a business 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 a specific, 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 managed. this is russian. so some of us here in con, settlement is tortured by the disappearance of his brother. regarding my fame 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 7. with each passing day, it's ever less likely that his brother made it out of the river alive,

troubles and was often i haven't given up hope. and i want 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, but we won't give up and as long as humanly possible. why this keeps 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 there will be more in the winter evenings. good, because we have been experiencing it for 22 years now. altogether, unfortunately, the people dying on incline younger simone designs the same. the only reason that i

have the center software is always a difficult topic. this carlos. but i'm a scientist, a hi, separate the professional and the emotional get ship and i don't, the emotions interfere with my junk because then that the volume pushing the bank of them on the funding. will there be a ceremony or know a civil burial for did you be? 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 your do 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 or what 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. and i so it's invisible with others our and then still in this defense again on the cemetery for the nameless dead, anonymous migrants and europe's border. who will mourn them? the

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