On Tuesday, 3. November at exactly 8 hours the first train with refugees from the Middle East, about a thousand of them, came from the direction of Tovarnika in the newly-built ‘ Winter transit centre ‘ in Slavonski Brod. It is about premještenima migrants from the camp in opatovac, which is closing. In the composition of the nine carriages is brought about a thousand people among whom there was an equal number of women, children and men.
Immediately after leaving the ground, the drape in the blankets, visibly tired and exhausted, very disciplined and in silence, ranged in the direction of the tent for registration.
Migrants are welcomed by numerous members of the Croatian police, Red Cross and other non-governmental organizations, volunteers, involved in the process, and accepts them and Minister of Internal Affairs who is Ranko Ostojic in his first remarks to the journalists and reporters of numerous local, Croatian and foreign media pointed out how the word is an old wives ‘ tale about people with where they were transferred in Tovarnik. “Wives ‘ now we’re closed, but registration with which we stopped in opatovac will be resumed here in Slavonski Brod. Immediately after they are registered, and after they get packed red cross packages are returning to this same train who were members of the public works has already cleaned up and continue the road towards Slovenia.
This principle will work as long as we don’t have a need to remain in the camp, in this case, everything is ready for the reception of up to five thousand people in the camp, “said the Minister, and how will the announced Ostojic today in Slavonski Brod to pass a minimum of five thousand people, and during the day it is expected a few more trains with migrants from SID in Serbia. “From Tuesday the only link of their further journey through Croatia’s Sid (Serbia)-Slavonski Brod-Dobova (Slovenia), the Minister said, and expressed his satisfaction with the admission in Slavonski Brod where everything takes place without problems. Upon the arrival of the first train of incidents there was, and has been recorded only one medical intervention where the help was given a small child that is povraćalo. On Tuesday, in a camp on the acceptance of the first refugees were hired 400 people, as police and employees through public works, doctors and medical staff, the volunteers of the Red Cross and numerous non-governmental associations and organizations.
Among the first thousand people, who arrived by train in Slavonski Brod, patiently waiting for their turn at the register was a 24-year-old engineer from Afghanistan, But Azgard defense. -My goal is to Finland, because it is a safe country that accepts refugees. I’m going with the areas in which the Government war because I want to live in peace. My four friends with whom I worked in the camp, and I was a translator, were killed. In the hell of war I left my parents, four brothers and two sisters, he said, But told reporters.
A temporary transit centre for the reception of migrants in Slavonski Brod was arranged for only two weeks. It is divided into six sectors, in which can be received 5 to 6 thousand people. In the camp there is also a medical clinic and separate sanitary facilities with showers, so the poor people after weeks of travel from the Middle East to Europe here to be able to do and basic hygiene.
Ivica Vlašić
