Médecins Sans Frontières - The Game | Webclip

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF210115

Date taken / Date Recorded 29/09/2017 12:00 AM

Country Serbia

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Marko Drobnjakovic

Copyright MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★★★ (A)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 3m4s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 312.31 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist - TEXT ON SCREEN -

Serbian Hungarian Border

THE GAME

92% of children seen by MSF and reporting physical violence mentioned EU Member State police or border authorities
as the perpetrators.

In 2017, Bulgaria, Hungary and Croatia
allegedly continue to use violence and mistreatments
to deter people from entering the EU.

ARE YOU OK WITH THIS?
WE ARE NOT
THIS BRUTALITY MUST STOP

PLEASE SHARE

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They are calling it the game.

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It's like a game
when you are going to cross.

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But it's really, really hard.

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- Game or border crossing
in our terms is "The Game".

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When we are a group of around 15 guys,
we say that we are going on the game.

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- The game happens here.

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The "agents" (smugglers) take the money
3,000 euro - 4,000 euro.

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Then people are gathered
and they go towards the border.

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- The last game, I'll explain to you.

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It was near to the fence

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and after ten days they gave us
a chance to cross the fence.

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And when we crossed it,
we walked for seven hours

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but there was no food or water.
Then, after three days

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we gave ourselves to the police
they pushed us back.

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- I tried it (the game) 22 times.

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Through Croatia until Slovenia.

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The police arrested me.

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They also beat me a lot
and they sent me back here.

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- We faced the Hungarian police,
they caught us and beat us a lot.

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They really beat us a lot.

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They told us: "This route is closed!"

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"You cannot come this way!"

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- Out of the five times I went (to Croatia),
I was beaten four times.

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The police caught us,
beat us and pushed us back.

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They were beating us and
kicking us like a football ball.

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They also punched me in the face.

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When they put me in the car
they punched me in the face.

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- I myself am a student, two years
of my life have been wasted here.

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Why is this cruelty happening to us?

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Why?

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We are humans,
we are not animals.

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We are not dogs.

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The dogs also sleep
here on the rubbish

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On the dirt, on the garbage.
We also sleep here.

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There comes a time when
we are forced to commit suicide.

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People take knives, like this,
they cut themselves with blades.

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It's all stress.

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The other day when the police beat me
I got so stressed that

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I told the police to
pick up his gun and kill me.

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Take your gun, please kill me!

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You finish my life!

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I don't like this life!

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- Afraid of what?

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Everything is a horror for you.

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When you are underage.

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You are small and then

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there is no one to take care of you.

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So, you can imagine how hard it is.

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We just want from the EU, to do
something for us, to think about that.

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That we are human, that we are
not animals or something like that.

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We cannot do anything here.

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That's all.

Special instructions After Effects project to adapt the end of the videos with the “Are you okay with this?” campaign is on MSF210160

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The Game | Webclip | English

The Game | Webclip | English