From Bosnia to Trieste, migrants’ journey across the new Balkan route

Petrina, Bosnia

Bosnia is on the route towards the west © Michele Cirillo

Polizia di confine

The journey from Bosnia to Italy is perilous: there are mines, dangerous animals and the constant risk of being arrested © Michele Cirillo

Bosco al confine tra Bosnia e Croazia

The stories of violence by border police are a consolidated memory for the more experienced people, and a ghost for the others at their first attempts © Michele Cirillo

Mappa

Amir, a 70-year-old man from Bihac, suggests that migrants are helped by locals when they move on the tracks towards the border © Michele Cirillo

25 september 2018,

by Editorial staff