A new report has found that European governments are doing little to investigate claims of abuse by border forces. Fear and intimidation also prevent refugees from reporting mistreatment.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) issued a scathing report on Tuesday decrying the situation on the bloc’s borders.
The report found that migrants and refugees were often subject to degrading treatment by member states’ border security forces. It also revealed that national governments rarely investigated such violations.
The study focused on border countries in the Balkans and the Mediterranean, saying that Greece, Hungary, and Croatia, in particular, did “not effectively investigate incidents of ill-treatment and loss of life during border management.”
FRA said that these countries, despite “credible allegations” of mistreatment, made “insufficient efforts to locate and hear victims and witnesses, hindering lawyers in their work and not having access to key evidence [such as footage from border surveillance].”
And yet when I said EU border guards and Frontex are fascists and white supremacists last time they threw people to the sea I got downvoted.
Lemmy users love the EU so blindly because they have no understanding of what it is and what it was created for. And that is white european supremacy.
You get downvotes for your phrasing, generalisation, and assumptions. The people doing the heinous crimes should be punished, for sure and so should the people in power who set it up. But not every border guard is a fascist and white supremacist