Migrants in the Balkans: Everyone wants to be Syrian
[IsraelTimes] As Europe gears up to take in those fleeing war, many who seek a better life are taking note -- and losing their passports
HAJDUKOVO, Serbia -- A Pak identity card in the bushes, a Bangladeshi one in a cornfield. A torn Iraqi driver's license bearing the photo of a man with a Saddam-style mustache, another one with a scarfed woman displaying a shy smile.
Documents scattered only meters from Serbia's border with Hungary provide evidence that many of the migrants flooding Europe to escape war or poverty are scrapping their true nationalities and likely assuming new ones, just as they enter the European Union
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-09-07 |