Children coming with or without parents

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Children coming with or without parents

Via the Balkan route more and more refugee children. It is feared that thousands of underage victims of Criminals. Nemanja Rujević reported from Gevgelija.

“Are you the father?” The question is repeated to the Macedonian Grenzpolizist several times, his forehead each Time a bit stronger runzelnd, his broken English is always hectic. “You are the father?” The Syrians before him, only nods blankly and wants to confirm that the lady behind him his wife and three children to his offspring. The policeman stares into by the Greek authorities issued papers – the family has no passports – and in the end, no other choice, as the man to believe. “Go” – so that the Macedonians finally given the green light and opened the Syrian family, providing a new stage of your journey: you may now in the Transitkamp of Gevgelija. A couple of hours long, you will be here for supplies and then on to Serbia to Germany.

Tractor type Winterrabatt

When it comes to children, is the ritual mistrust of the authorities by no means unfounded: Europol, speaks of 10,000 unaccompanied Minors after their arrival in Europe has already disappeared. Although it’s difficult to tell whether they really disappeared or just due to sloppy bureaucracy “invisible” has become – but the Europol message is also here in Gevgelija discussed. Because there are increasingly children and women on the move, as well as official Macedonian statistics, the DW exists, confirmed. It was last summer, 75 per cent of men, children and women here in the meantime up to two-thirds of the arrivals.

“At the beginning if we wanted to test the System, the young men should break the ice,” says Jesper Frovin Jensen, for the Unicef children’s Fund, the local aid co-ordinated. The situation in the war zones is not become better, says the Dane, the Stay is for many no longer an Option. “Also, get the smugglers in this weather, their ships were not full, and reduce, therefore, the prices. This is then a signal for many, the trip previously could not afford.”

Children process their experiences – in pictures

So there are more and more women find the courage to have alone with their children on the perilous way to go. Women like Hosna from Aleppo, which is just Fertigsuppe with noodles brings. Her three year old son, dick in a one-piece ski suit is wrapped up, sitting happily on one of the benches in the huge heated tent. “Aleppo bathroom. In Aleppo (Aleppo bad, in Aleppo war),” says the mother, just above your hometown. The father of the family is already in Sweden, now wants to Hosna. It sounds a little absurd: Now, where the countries of destination try to family reunification for refugees, to hinder or to delay, the families only right – only on the rough seas and the frozen Wasteland of the Balkans.

The door closes

Be driven not only by the continued Wars in their home countries and the hope of their already living in Europe family members again – but also from the feeling that it soon might be too late. Then namely, when the “fortress Europe” might be the last bridge pulls up. Because even if only a minority of the refugees here feverish Fans of German policy debates are, almost all will have noticed how the mood in Europe is changing: Instead of, as before, still a couple of months ago, excited images of “mommy Merkel” on their phones to show off, afraid of the people, the welcome soon to be history. “The mothers hurry then just with the children,” says Elma Džanković of the Hilforganisation Legis.

How to hurry it all in, in the Camp of Gevgelija is most likely the helper with, like weather vanes to asking people to turn around and mechanically the same the same the same answer: no, you can’t just come from the Camp, out for a walk, but needs the permission of the police to wait. Yes, a Ticket to the Serbian border, will cost 25 Euro and regardless of whether the authorities are on train, Bus or Taxi point.

Suspicion of child trafficking

For real social work remains as there is little time, what Elma Džanković very dangerous. The Volunteers know that only Macedonia has so far been over 18,000 unaccompanied minors are counted. “We have evidence that some people in the foreign unaccompanied children as their own and thus fake papers to get,” she says, without a source for this Information is to call. Bad guesses but there are many here: child trafficking is the speech, even of organ trafficking. “We have a lack of qualified social workers, and educators, the notice may, whether a child is actually a family member. But the people stay only for a few hours, then the Problem is exported.”

Girls in Transitcamp: parents?

The critics also dealing with unaccompanied children. Only if they are very small and if not a Relative in the near find, the children in the centre in the capital Skopje. Otherwise, if you are looking for a so-called “Keeper”, someone who agrees, on the further way to the Minor to take care of. The Unicef coordinator Jesper Frovin Jensen defended this practice: “These young people have only one thought in your head: go on. It makes you more vulnerable, if you have your onward journey with one of them already well-known group prevent.”

How important it is for the child, well-known faces to have around, know Anamarija Schram. The young helper in a jumpsuit of the Red cross is in Gevgelija for the reunification of jurisdiction. “It often happens that people have their children on the way to lose or that family members in different buses to enter,” says Anamarija. Your task is, therefore, often stressful. Why your work is still like that, she was only a few hours prior to our conversation, again aware of: A Young boy was simply out of the Camp disappeared. Clueless, he stood on a bridge, 300 metres away, as Anamarija found him. To see how the parents of your child back in their arms joined, she says, focusing on the Whole.