Balkan border cops 'responsible for 76% of violent assaults on children' – MSF

Published time: 6 Oct, 2017 01:15
Edited time: 6 Oct, 2017 10:02

State authorities are responsible for more than 75 percent of violent physical assaults suffered by adolescent migrants in the Balkans, according to a new Médecins Sans Frontières report.

The study, entitled 'Games of Violence,' covers the first six months of this year and compiles medical data and accounts of abuse suffered by migrants aged 12-37 while attempting to cross borders in Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Croatia.

“While smugglers and traffickers continue to be responsible for a small percentage of the violence (8 percent), the great majority of children cared for by MSF named state authorities as perpetrators (76 percent),” the report reads.

https://www.rt.com/news/405831-balkans-border-msf-children-abuse/