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Zekeriah, a 23-year old Moroccan, who dreams of a better life in Sweden, tries to sneak across the border from Serbia to EU member state Croatia night after night.
He and others like him, such as Mohamed from Afghanistan or Selman from Pakistan, risk grave injuries to do it or risk, at the least, police brutality.
The young men are part of a larger group that lives in forests on the EU border after the EU closed the Western Balkans route and after Serbia shut down a migrant settlement in Belgrade.
“I came through Turkey, then Greece – Leros, Athens, Thessaloniki – Macedonia, and now Serbia,” Zekeriah, who left Morocco at the end of last year and who speaks fluent English, told EUobserver.
He spoke by the road in Sid, a town in Serbia near the border with Croatia.
