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i'm looking for my nephew. he read the separated. we don't know what is going on. the border between poland and feller roost over the last 3 years. thousands of people have tried to reach the e u here, despite the military presence on board or fence. again and again, the traces of some of these migrants are lost in the primeval forest. so for the last year. okay, let's go police volunteers, search for clues of these people's whereabouts. people disappear and die. they pushed back and forth at the border. their relatives lived with uncertainty the numbers. i'm afraid i'll never see him again. the

the, my name is davida, romano sky. i'm a german polish journalist. i'm here in london to meet with ray college. rashid fled northern iraq for britain more than 20 years ago. 3 years ago, his nephew mohammed sapa also decided to leave a rack. he too wanted to come to europe and got your message. which of these is when we don't know leasing is to have him look. i'm not ignoring re coat, lives alone in a one bedroom apartment in east london. he is not a british citizen and long works as a truck driver. these days he spends most of his time searching for mohammed.

this guy is a must i? but he's my nephew, these one me and him this one, the 2000 and penny when i was about quarter this time. you get to visa, comfortable those as wash. uh, as was then november 2020. when these, when, when he went to men sick or wow, so not a lot of no the machine was to the people didn't know where the com i good day and evening, full of hope for the n 22. you read mohamad. he informed his uncle in london about his every move. when did you hear from you left over the last time,

april to me 2 days before the 29th of november, 2021 to 3 days before the missing days voice each 1 december 1st 2021 mohammed central for the border. the humanitarian situation there had continued to worse than does it the, the doing this in videos on the board?

the visit was why he was stuck in was no man's land. yeah. and photo score and but the rest yeah. right. a book to 1000 people come to more and what they believe would have put given open the gate for them and in the side pulled on the dim we told him go back but the other side below. oh no, they didn't. they came back. so they was stuck in the middle, but the a could do nothing. i didn't know so people was missing me as my sister, and that was all my nephew. i have to deal with this game.

mohammed disappeared on december 2nd 2021. the year bella, luce began to systematically smuggling people to the border in response, pulling bill to 185 kilometer long border offense. but even in 2024 migrants are trying to enter the u using russian or bell or russian visas, route least through this one p. b. i live age of forest in northeastern poland. the, in the spring of 2024, a local police gate organizations find itself once again receiving a growing number of emergency calls from the forest. the group has been active since the beginning of the migrant crisis. here somewhere they are looking for missing people. for people who will be wondering around for days,

often without food soaking, wet and be hydrated in constant fear of being discovered by coolidge border guards and sent back to belarus. i accompany him out, a huge co realtor, and 17 year old my 2 usually back. they proceed to call them pops hotline and are on their way to help a group of ethiopia, and they want to find them before the border guards do keep working towards the clearing. i see your head to the left, the to we are looking for a moment to is doing it. we will give you more foods and some shows and libby,

but the for the migrants, the clothes and food. but they also want to apply for asylum in poland. for example, because this could, at least in theory, keep them from being immediately deported. back to bella luce, as an e u member state, poland is bound to consider all asylum applications. and that is for everyone. this is about the procedures. and so that's not protection golden, i'm so i'm doing this for you for the extra charge with the the group is laid out with the forest and lead her handed over to the border guards who must officially register their applications. the ethiopians were stuck in the border region for 3 weeks. one of them recounts what they saw on the forest. uh, on my way here,

i saw some data bodies like tubal data bodies, uh, in the jungle. i saw in the polish forest a so kind of an a humans, that kind of thing. and also uh, on the 11th floor. that justin, i saw holmes last night with the disease which plans we found you that says something about this issue. hon us the lovely, the date or the will be they did do a body with the 5th community, woke estimates for the volunteers if i were to search for the body, says 2021. the remains of at least 40 people hoping to find on the polar side of the border. more than $340.00 people being reported missing and the

wrong 10 percent of those are still being actively searched for the one of them is mohammed saba. the is journey began in 2021 in airfield, a capital the curtis and region send me a tournaments region in northern iraq. despite political stability, the region struggles with corruption and an unemployment rate of nearly 40 percent . many young people leave their homes to try to reach you at to legally. the mohammad grew up in this neighborhood with his parents and siblings. he was 22 when he left for belarus. at the time, the overland route to unit was considered less dangerous than crossing the mediterranean. the little i had an outside taken home and

has wanted to go abroad since he was 15. us the the 1095, the sally, all the young people here talk about immigrating with guns, who i'm calling about when you is young. as mohammed and everyone around you is constantly talking about nothing else. we're leaving the country, we start takes hold of you and you can't get rid of it. i can't understand why they want to live in a foreign country. i don't think it's worth it. and so without him, my house feels empty. they go to so he

told us there was nothing for him to do here. we should be worked in a food store and got very little money for it. so how much so no future here, no prospect. it was hard for him to go submit it to the check in with beans. i left was his favorite food fast through the state because to find the old was a killer and couldn't do this is a picture from the day we said good bye to him. by god, when he left my heart was restless. combine in us on the smugglers are not good people. we can't trust them or not, i bring myself a lot to know. i should have never allowed him to leave. but i didn't realize how dangerous his journey would be. but on this end of this, every day saba, assigning sophia rashid hope for news from europe. they refused to give up hope

that their son is still alive. but despite an intensive search that our new definite leads in the winter by some homage sapa, i am back on the road with volunteers from pop, the eat organization. witnessing their search for missing persons on the pollution pollution border, the desktops, we often received information that someone has not contacted their relatives and needs help members, insurance companies, we must ignore any reports. this is a matter of life and death to some of the counselors. you're not below come as you keep which i'm p o trots oven. i've received support from slovakia and activists. they are looking for a missing egyptian man who disappeared without a trace here in northeastern poland. 3 days ago, i saw tusa between

3540 or sauls. he's dressed as in blue. the pharmacy caused him science. so gonna show science side. we kind of found the body of someone fearless and all the gold was this. but the site even wins would be next to the about the, the phone or some documents that don't touch those types of and working with stock . that's 10 steps. one of each other and go into a straight line. okay. okay. okay. the uh, safety heisman. today we've got new information from his brother said to them. unfortunately, we know that she was mistreated by the better routines, and he was chronically ill. luckily he had no medication because we're afraid that we might be too late when you called us back

and uh, contact we knows that the family hasn't heard from him for awhile and it was that's why we filed a missing persons report with the police and he is, and it's already been looking for him. okay, vanya, however, foolish authorities, hardly ever carrier, to lindsey and systematic search for missing persons. it is local volunteers who pick up the slack. why are you doing this here? in the show because the state is doing too little because the author already is the doing next to nothing before and none of the beach you monetary and organizations are active here and found out that you are nights the not the you end up with a go on we, the inhabitants of philosophy, i have been left a line from the very beginning of the clean up or something is cancer. little short . we managed

to find a few people in life. sometimes someone you're looking for recently discovered after a while beat and availability in prison or sometimes somewhere in gemini, but many searches and with no results. that's the case with mohammed somebody. well i'm, it is one of those missing migraines still being searched for years after his disappearance . his uncle recount rashid and london is in close contact with active as p. o truck charge on these one pita, i he's mailed present date. if i told the police, and then he, they signed me say if any news, you're kind of going back to where like find me, you know, i never forget because they done the thing for us with the interest help re co travel to poland in july 2022 to search for traces of his nephew

9 days who was wilton tries will avery, when we go to the board, the date is league did when these guys are missing was the fluid is met. and then that time i last called for then maybe he's died on his journey rico did receive one important piece of information for the police station to make a statement of police told me we are. is this guy when they will they push him a few days before his missing i understand these guy. he came to illegal, but why you didn't put it back to your case or is no county because these guy, nothing to do was they levels mohammed saba was deported to billers. how do these deportations work?

drawing me, how about a polish border guard on his patrol? of the border shit of the nice to also for this morning around a dozen migraines tried to cross the border, but we're still looking for 2 of them. but we'll definitely find them soon though, because we're also monitoring to other groups that are currently behind the board or fence. so we're on permanent alert conflicts you need most of the, the tool to do on the atmosphere is tends attacks on border guards are increasing at the beginning of june. police soldier was stopped to death. yeah. cause i have your to what extent is it the routine regime involved and what is happening here on the board or about sessions? we have at the beginning. but somebody to go to school, we shouldn't forget to austin only about the routing and security forces have access to the border area. so the talk soon. everyone else is there with the express consent to the routing and authorities to tell us how many they facilitate the transportation of migrants to the border and help them across the border

illegally into my old season migration movements for artificially created and controlled from the very beginning i'm you could also use this could overall nice to have on a sports fan. but the photo of what the, so far this year, we registered about $22000.00 attempts to cross the border illegally pulling an increase compared to last year. the most migrants are sent back to deliveries in new to we after crossing the border. these push backs violate the charter of fundamental rights, which grants those seeking protection, the right to apply for asylum. the polish government then headed by the right wing p, i s legalize push backs back in 2021. the current liberal government under donald tusk is sticking to the practice the everything quiet. yes. there was something this morning wasn't there in the system to me. you guys. all right,

okay, so i'm going to, here's the polish border post below over there. the roots here in one of the but i'm on the small gates, so different technical maintenance extensive are they use for push backs or does that happen somewhere else? in the we use a different term. we talk about repatriation. so the most of the time it will also, but the fact the sphere to the person to facto state. so they want to continue to western europe. i emailed me to germany will say it will be returned to belarus. so the site is to the country. they enter legally involuntarily providing you the return takes place at a location that is safe for the person that most people across the board are, are returned. they know about it and accepted the everything we do is done within the framework of polish law. you want me to put on my ski, we'll put our or 8

organizations have reported cases in which people asked for asylum in poland. were deported to bella roost push backs, illegal even under the polish interpretation of the law. as a result, people in the forest try to avoid border guards, people likes i eat the egyptian with be missing for 3 days. and it's about a bunch of people are very afraid of pushback that says the chip sion was travelling with a group to see if i had called an ambulance for him. the board of guns would have come immediately as i used that perhaps the most likely the guns would have taken the activella ruse. oh, the meal returning his companions probably promised him that they would send help as soon as they was safe themselves. that's why they lifted within the forest that was wrong, just opposite the sunset on the

of the human genuine. now walking once around the like, parallel to the shore, the dr. there are still 2 kilometers to go. the, there's a new jeep to, so you discovered many of the missing people were pushed back. didn't you so much so things is a study push because i need to. yes, i think executive as of the does again shows on the list. these are the consequences on all these cases have to do with push backs in one way or another. the mean board thing because if there were no push back injured people would report to the police board of god voluntarily mentioned this testing, gun shy viewed with a guarantee that everything necessary would be done to check whether they are entitled to a silence. i'm not sure whether they need to be deported. somebody put in a civilized manner into the countries of origin. the kindly jose now then these

people would not end up in bellows in forest. would replace couple of the you in germany. see what's happening here. go the they think it's fine for people like mohammed to be thrown across the hold up just going to for polish activists. cases like these are missing persons at the border or a direct result of the push back policy to eat. organizations report the push backs or even being carried out from hospitals. what's more migrants are pressure to withdraw their asylum applications. pop active as of film polish. border guards, as they appear to deport unconscious people to bellows through those small gates in the border fence. the

seems like a visual to the still in this, those are going to say is there are accusations that push bags by the border. guards are the reason why there are so many missing people is over. that's how a saw the and that's the one to be able to go to the, to the one that being. so 1st of all, i would like to emphasize most of polls and over 90 percent of residents in the border communities want to secure a border science. so i'm going to need to meet the no one who is in contact with the border guards has died or gone missing and you're going to see a patient or she has 6 or something like this happened. it was precisely because this person avoid in contact with the border guards because of their own recklessness of people's voss and business in austin. so it's an issue the most you polish police have confirmed that mohammed sava was deported back to bella roost on november 29th, 2021. more than 10 months later, pop active as forwarded

a video to re code rashid in london. a video recorded by the publish border guards . could you show me? yes, a video of the the baby i know is my my nephew, this is when it can is when sub a he called me the 1st time he saw this jacket. he said i would for him to to check it with some forensic experts. uh yeah, we did. they did check with the property. we know our son is a if you have child a know is your chat since my mom is parents can't get

a visa re code is in charge of the search in europe. the family members are in constant contact. that is how are you saw that she? how are you? read couch less. you're the reporter as what hope is this video given you? my light, it's made me optimistic. i haven't heard from my son for 10 months. there was no trace, but i asked him, i was afraid that he had died in the forest at the border along after 10 months k, god gave me hope again. would you download the video from the border fence, raised new questions for the family. rico. tried in vain to get answers from the polish border guards. the 5th time they said it, we took him to host, show us a proof. they didn't give us. and then after that then they said to us,

he's the issue. we spoke with suggestion investing and then in a folder money they, they reply to out. they are suppose to us say they told us he's a back and then the end eventually they didn't be nice. ok. he wasn't homeless, believe push him back. when i ask the border guards, don't give me any information about the man's identity either. they see he had no papers on him. how difficult is it for you to know if this was kind of uncertainty because they don't know what happened to you? i'm not sure if i believes to i life because of that are 6 of october of 2022 with a 100 percent 100 person 100 percent. this guy was same on the scenes. i didn't know before. i believe he's even further on, but no more of my my mind in,

in been advertising. maybe he's there cause they pushing back to the other side. maybe. is it is in van out maybe but know 100 percent the location cal regime provides very little information about what is happening in the border region with poland or requests from a home. it's finally via the iraqi embassy in poland, also less nowhere. that's why i'm going to warsaw to visit television human rights activists in europe. rooney's kaya the exile works for the interview. human comes down to which collects information on missing persons and belarus. on monday we have the name when we're to send this thing and now then recess, what type of information we can meet you case. and then we'd have information like the message itself, like for example, to weeks in photos with a close to the polling is i would flip into what uh, this is

a clipping i have received from a family member of the missing persons from, from the same song is it possible that someone disappears for 10 months without getting any sign and $10.00 in bill at all? so we don't have a special detention center for 4 months. so any for them that, that that would be the thing would be kept in uh, within that a protective detention center. then not allowed to communicate with outside world. uh, uh, in see it is possible, the person could be detained. the answer it called the visa, no one would know about this uh, and a in our system that you could visit for. and that would be the day for up to one

year. whether mohammed sava was ever imprisoned and beller roost remains uncertain. the interview, the family continues to wait for news from europe. all hope has pin don't reach out . who visits regularly? the parents have not heard from their son since the mysterious video from the border fence. where is mohammed? there are many unanswered questions and there is no clarity my question why he came to on the oil on the fence and he's missing where he was. in 10 months time. what happened was him after the pushing back after the video of the border fence and merged in the fall of 2022, the family finding new hope and then is this the same

month? the month i bought these new things back down at b o. b, that's good about that was about 10 months ago a bit. so we were hoping that he would come back and where they move close and then i'm is that them just yeah. so just but he didn't wear any of them the yeah i'm, i'm just kinda how he does. i'm gonna do us mohammed his dad. i accepted. just tell me he's dead. i want to know that lam uh i like to have a lovely. i'm a tad. we will not let go of our boy and as long as we're alive, we'll wait for him to come home at the whole month. the while i am, that's all we can do to him on the thing that i guys, the

rico rashid has been to. poland, 4 times since his nephew disappeared. there is enormous pressure on him to finally find out what happened at the polish beller russian border. of the main 15 last time, many of the new d m. waters. on this case, my nephew case had come to you at all times, it is empty, but i want to get with the result of by the even by the reason i, i want to get w store that is exhausting not far from the border. recurrent means active as field trips often serves us as proxy with polish authorities. i love that. okay. so it den. okay. the tank good. how are you? yeah, i'm good. you think? oh no. so. so how parents? well some of the state and the same. so the able to,

they the last call for them because it's, they towed a we couldn't find one song as a, are there any ongoing investigations by publish authorities? seems a bit of general harm of the i us, mohammed's families provided in a sample and send it to the polish police at their own expense. the goals, the post on the polar side will unidentified bodies, and skeletons have seen and a still being found show. but so far, the police have not been able to identify any of the bodies using the dna sample from a home. it's family and an outage in the home of the property. to be honest, the search for him is that a dead end drug there is no trace of the boy thoughtful for buckles. rico and po truck to take me near the last new location of mohammed. yes. show me here. no, i think when uh, when the last location of mohammad was uh,

i went to you know, 3 pick it on my freaking on it. there was something there, but it's the the russian site site. he received it from from ohio and it'd be at the smuggler from the people who was here also. oh yeah, he's up or the smuggler. and he took his people to the city. i got all the dispos that you have to in the price. he said they cut one of them, the fast one from the other side, but another size. and then 16 of them was, one of them was how much the ink that you said they supposed to to what was the right side, what to do with the lift site and then how much was missing in between the

what date it was taken of uh, december 2000 infinity with so for before the 29th of november they, they probably generally employees are seeing what i yes. yeah. and then after that or you can see days after 8 am and he's is happening right. the winter he is very dense. so yeah, oh, that just makes you feel to be like so close this area where waving nephew as has

been, well, i feel i would he is going to be 10 a 5 because it's very quiet a nobody here. and if you don't have phone, you don't know which location you have to go and then fluid is teasing with snow is august. if i with him, i will be met. we didn't find any other thoughts. nobody say this, he's more deep. so if give me a ho, he's new diet. we seem to investigate and reach to the asking people, the sites, the liver sites but how likely are they to get answers from belarus? i asked belushi an activist and you're a product sky. a. it's not that we really can do a lot in this edition, but it's really the problem that those relatives come to a talk almost not soon. and then we are sending the request to state institutions.

most of the cases we are receiving form of the responses we competed seems a sense of different formation. and unfortunately, we can't prove that. then the wound video search for these uh, who are missing over the last 3 years, beller, russian officials have reported 56 tests on their side with the border. those are the official numbers. i have been talking with people in the forest who told me that they have seen bodies on the better russian side. is it possible? it is like more and report to cases and you know about, of the russian agencies provide. it's need to be understood, the board them area in zillow, so which have festival the set to kill him, it does own. and it's extremely, it is, it's only bore the clement, the uh, why allowed to go with that. we'd definitely know that boy, the community is not that important about everyone who died

according to the literacy in the end you at least 16 more deaths were confirmed by the summer of 2024 polish human rights groups. see, is likely the number of deaths on their side of the border is also higher. not all families report their cases and contact between the missing persons relatives inactive is often breaks off before anything concrete is found. the search for the missing egyptian in the northern border region with belarus is also unsuccessful. the active as called a search off for the day and this we are sending this map to the brother and the police station and they can add it to the documentation. so let's go to the class. ok.

it doesn't have to have that the so can you, it was the was we're looking for a needle in a haystack here. the metal please. as soon as the information we get is often very vague and emphasized, we own, some of us come into the locations that have sent to us from people's memories uh too for clients because she's math. we often woke hundreds of kilometers through the forest to find someone. she knows he's got us the symptom, but the terrain is often very difficult. and even if the person is only a 100 meters away from us, we may not be able to find them at the moment when you have managed a few days after the search operation cartridge, you'll not leave me a voice message. hi, we continued the search until the moment when the man's family informed us that he

had turned up on the battle roost inside up on the contract, the family but the weight from a homage. sabbath family continues together was re codes and field trip. i traveled to the time was on the cemetery and bull who knew to the final resting place for some migrants find dead in poland. there is no name, man. he wasn't dying. no name. yes, but the same time one. well, how much was about the point? they maybe were just somewhat on the way i'm gonna be that are so sorry, i don't even in point might be they think they don't source crossing lots of people who are the people on the bottom there is was funded by us activities is

not mine by police we did on our was to inform the families we haven't the same from that as inc. and key and double vision. not as com to be took care of now, lots of people. and i know it's not everybody who's missing things and in florida. so i go home, so sorry it's, i know it's painful for you. i know, but defending i think this c do in fact we want to find out what was your digital also for i understand we found these people body here the or the, the past. so a lot of facility for them, at least the family, they know with the, the child or the they do it or they sent a visa paid

to be so bad. in small kilo month is landed between 2 countries. both countries say we don't have any information about team. i mean how i don't understand the 3 years after his disappearance. there is still new clarity about mohammed state. this on certain t weighs heavily on the family. rico is determined to pursue every leader. i do everything for my living. i love my nephew. if i knew each day or night, that's it. and his life insurance, the way he can me like that. we know is no safe. we blame us. he come to the sweep done, john wait. we only need to investigate otherwise, it's the kind of no choice. we do not have to use

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