They start the climb, proceeding in Indian file, with one of the escorts at thebeginning to open the way, two are charged with picking up those who fell, andone as they proceed cancels the tracks left and closes the line. All had gym shoesprovided before departure.At seven in the morning finally they reach a house which from the outsideappeared to be a small refuge, but had inside an enormous underground room.T<strong>here</strong> were other 60 people, Philippinos, Chinese, Indians, Bengalis and Pakistanis.They were given bread, tea and apples and left to sleep until the afternoon.At three in the afternoon D. arrived who, from the account of T., appeared to besomeone of importance in the organisation of human trafficking. D. is halfYugoslav and half Italian and is married to an Italian woman. He announces that itis again time to make the journey and tells them he will accompany them up to acertain point, adding “You must pray that if they do not stop us in Slovenia,tomorrow you will be in Italy, if they stop us, it will take six months to arrive inItaly”. They all get into two lorries, under the tarpaulins, except T. who travels infront with the driver.At the border between Hungary and Slovenia one of the lorries was stopped bythe Customs suspicious because of the noise coming from the back of the lorry. T.travelled on the other vehicle which had already crossed the border and which wasfollowed and stopped. D. and the other members of the organisation were <strong>allo</strong>wedto go.The entire group was made to get into the lorries and taken by the HungarianPolice to Kiev in the Ukraine 27 , w<strong>here</strong>, after three days journey, they were placed ina reception/detention camp.T. says: “It was a camp. They treated us badly these soldiers, early in themorning they tell us to go outside, we go outside, the snow falls, you stand still,you don’t do anything, they do not give you anything to eat, the snow falls, thesnow falls, then it arrives at your knees, then at two they tell you to enter inside, wego inside and they give us dry bread, really hard…they give you this bread with teaand then at night they give you soup with beans, carrots, like that, horrible…butbecause of hunger one eats”.After one week T. manages to obtain permission to telephone, first she callsItaly, but they tell her to telephone a woman in Nigeria: that she will give theinstructions necessary to get out of the camp.The day of the flight, T. receives a telephone call 28 in which they say “It istoday, you must try to play slowly”.At night T. is approached inside the camp by two men dressed as soldiers thatmake her understand that she should go near the exit gate. While all the other27The explanation for such a transfer lies, according to the interviewee, in the fact that following a searchof the two lorries and their occupants, the Hungarian police found testimony of a stay in Ukraine of thePhilippine group, concluding that the entire group had left t<strong>here</strong> and that it was not t<strong>here</strong>fore t<strong>here</strong>sponsibility of the Hungarians to deal with this, but of the Ukrainians.28To receive telephone calls inside the camp was an exception that T. managed to obtain thanks to goodrelations with a policeman.
detainees go towards the refectory, T. manages to escape with the two men with thecomplicity of a guard who opens the gate. The same guard had enabled the twofake soldiers to enter inside the fence.“The traffickers”, maintains T., “had already taken money so they worked tothe end. If we are sent back 10 times, each 10 times they have to take us back, theirwork is by good or bad luck. Sometimes t<strong>here</strong> is good luck for one month: theypass with 100, 200 persons, and are not stopped. (…) They [the traffickers, Ed.]want cash, it is not that you pay half and when you arrive you pay the other half,you pay all but at all costs they send you to Italy, their work is like that ”.After the escape T. is lodged in a house which is inside the cemetery of Kievand in the basement of which are people of Philippine nationality. She spends aweek t<strong>here</strong> at the end of which one morning the two men that had liberated her(who in the meantime she discovers been Italian) return with two lorries full ofpersons who had been interned inside the camp.“Then” she says “they took these lorries and changed the car plates, they hadpainted them, inside the cemetery they changed the colour, had written somethingin some language. One went away and returned with wood. Because before thepeople were all standing, bent over. It is a question of about half an hour, theysaid, but the journey never ends. They had made some seats inside the lorry, underand above in two levels. Outside they had closed the lorry so if they should scream,no one could hear them and they also put air-conditioning inside with a tubeabove. They made the work t<strong>here</strong>, the people were underground and I could seefrom the window. I did not know what was going on ”.The stay inside the cemetery was prolonged for another week. From January, atthe time of departure, it is almost March when D. reappeared and said “Today youare free, we will enter Hungary, so that you can stay in a good house, and we willwait until we can leave”. The group were loaded on to a lorry and departed in thedirection of the border. After a few hours of travel they were stopped by the police.D. escaped and the other traffickers opened the lorry and let the people escapetowards the wood.The group walked through the entire night in mud and then on ice until thetraffickers accompanying them order them to stop and wait. They are in the middleof the wood, it is cold and t<strong>here</strong> is ice on the ground. Without guides they remaint<strong>here</strong> for three days without eating or drinking.“We slept and we woke, slept and woke, slept and woke, three days withouteating, sitting in the middle of ice, we don’t feel the cold anymore. TheseBangladeshis take the ice with their cloths, they tied it up and after t<strong>here</strong> weresome drops of water coming from the ice and they put this in their mouths [todrink, Ed.]. Even we Africans have started to do this”.After three days two people arrived, different from the ones who hadabandoned us, and they took us to the plains and transported us amongst bales ofhay in small groups on tractors and carts pulled by horses. Arriving near a largeplain they abandon the tractors and carts and stop in a house. After we had rested,the escorts make all of us 93 people mount horses in couples.
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