In the first 6 month of 2017, 92% of children and teenagers attending MSF mental health clinics and reporting physical violence mentioned EU Member State police or border authorities, namely Bulgaria, Hungary and Croatia, as the perpetrators. Almost half these children (48%) singled out Bulgarian authorities. Also from January to June 2017, MSF medical teams working in mobile clinics in Belgrade documented 62 incidents of intentional violence at the Hungarian border and 24 on the Croatian border. The vast majority of these accounts followed the same pattern of beatings, dog bites and the use of irritant spray that MSF teams have heard about for the past two years of seemingly systematic violence against people trying to cross into the European Union in the Balkans.