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Croatian police stole our N128,000, threatened to kill us — FUTO students

Two students at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Alexander Abia and Eboh Chinedu, who were held in a Bosnian immigration camp for about five weeks, have narrated their ordeal in the hands of the Croatian police.

The duo who returned to Nigeria on Friday said the policemen stole €310 (about 125,000) and another $10 (N3,500) in their wallets and also threatened to shoot them.

Alexander and Chinedu shared their ordeal with journalists when they were hosted by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission in Abuja on Saturday.

The two table tennis players were among five Nigerians who travelled to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, on November 12 to participate in the World University Championships in Pula.

While two students returned home after the tournament, one applied for asylum while Alexander and Chinedu were deported to Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Croatian police which claimed that they were in the country illegally, despite having arrived in Croatia with valid visas.

Abia stated that they went to Croatia with a FUTO official, identified as Ms Patience, adding that they lost touch with her after they were arrested by the Croatian policemen and deported to the neighbouring Bosnia.

Abia said, “We crashed out of the tennis championships in the second stage, so we were supposed to return to Nigeria on November 18, 2019. A day before which is November 17, we decided to look around the city.

“When we were in Pula, we moved around and toured the city. In Zagreb, we decided to look around when a policeman stopped us and demanded to know our identity.

“We explained to him that we are Nigerians and that we participated in a table tennis championship, but the problem I noticed was that he did not speak English.

“So, he said we should sit on the ground along the road. He made a call and another policeman came and they took us to a police station. They collected our wallets and phones.”

Abia, a 500-level Computer Science student, said they were detained in a cell, but his colleague, Chinedu fell sick and was vomiting continuously.

According to him, the police refused to listen to their demands for an interpreter, adding that in the night, they were marched into a vehicle with tinted glass and driven to the Bosnian borders.

The trip, he said took over seven hours, adding that at a location, they were transferred into another van with 12 illegal migrants from Pakistan, Indian and other countries.

Abia stated, “They drove us again for over four hours, then they stopped and asked everyone to sign a document that was written in their language without translation. I signed it out of fear, but Chinedu refused and the policeman kicked him, cocked his gun and threatened to shoot him. So, he signed.

“They put us back in the van again and drove us for about two hours. When we got to a forest, they ordered everyone out of the van. They gave me a carton containing our phones, belts and wallets and the €310 and $10 dollars were not there.”

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/croatian-police-stole-our-n128000-threatened-to-kill-us-futo-students/amp/

They took their transport money from the wallet
Who will pay for the fuel?

You better thank God for bringing you home safely...

eya......our politicians and bad government sold us out many years ago
this one na better case

So it's not only naija police that is corrupt

just watch other nigerians start insulting and dragging these boys to the ground. nigeria is a failed state

Corrupt cops everywhere!

Meanwhile........

And it's all because of them being foreigners.

Dumb police.

please who can help me work on my audible bluetooth translator? if i had done it these boys won't be in trouble, they will hear the idiots and the translator will relay to them what to speak

beckNcall:
just watch other nigerians start insulting and dragging them to the ground. nigeria is a failed state

If they did the right thing will anyone drag and insult them?

This hate wey u carry for head like gala for ur country no be small tin o!
Sho!!

Wetin concern Nigeria police with the corruption and bad attitude of Croatian police force now?!

Hatred kill faster than HIV o!

Any slight opportunity to drag the country's name in the mud, no dey pass una.

Small small biko!

Anyways,
GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

beckNcall:
go one side, over sabi patriotism. nigeria is not a nation mr man, just a gathering of incompatible people

You better park go Cameroun go meet una saviour!
Yeye dey smell.

Anyways, we dey come.........

So oyibo police too dey thief

Sorry o

as FUTO boys we naturally have this survival starter pack. Its inbuilt due to the stress and frustration experienced in campus. Damn I thought you guys were smart enough to handle the situation effectively but most times we become victims of wrong place at wrong time. lessons learnt.

Bet9jaVirtual:
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Dx life seff.....thats too bad... Oyibo police Don dey learn work from 9ja police

gibiv:
Gas gbos

We call GBAS-GBOS!

post=85130802:
This hate wey u carry for head for ur country no be small tin o.

Wetin concern Nigeria police with the corruption of Croatian police force now?!

Hatred kill faster than HIV o!

Small small biko!

go one side, over sabi patriotism. nigeria is not a nation mr man, just a gathering of incompatible people

When you think we have got the worst police force

Thanks to God for keeping you safe.

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Police nah the same worldwide

Who tours or walks around in eastern europe without passport in hand

Liars

Something is generally wrong with the police, and another thing is not right with some Nigerians self. Mtcheeew.

My croatian homie don explain his country politics small, small. Forget Europe, the country has a Nigerian mentality...corruption full like pounded yam there, from Dubrovnik to Zadar.