Afghan referee sees no fair play in EU border policies
ABC News
Ibrahim Rasool loved his job as a soccer referee because of sportsmanship and fair play
VELIKA KLADUSA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Ibrahim Rasool loved his job as a soccer referee because of sportsmanship and fair play. But the 33-year-old from Afghanistan says there's nothing fair about the way the European Union treats people flocking to its borders in search of a better life.
Rasool told The Associated Press that police in Croatia ignored pleas from a pregnant woman and families with small children and instead deported him and 16 others back to Bosnia when they crossed into the EU country this month.
Rasool provided video that he said he had filmed inside a Croatian police van and in a forest at Croatia's border with Bosnia. Croatian police insulted the people who tried to make it in and told them to go back to Afghanistan, Rasool said.
Croatian police have not responded to an AP request seeking information about the alleged Nov. 10 border incident.
