Due to an increasingly restrictive border regime along the ‘Balkan route,’ the business of people smuggling is on the rise.

SCHOOLBOYS have been stripped naked, posed for pornography and threatened with the images being plastered across the internet as sick smuggling gangs find new ways to make millions from the migrant crisis.

Children have fled war only to be raped, used as mules and violently attacked

Regional training on migration was held in Zagreb, organized by ICITAP (International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program of the Department of Justice USA) and the Police Academy in Zagreb, and it gathered representatives of eight countries in the region who, on this occasion, had the opportunity to exchange experiences, examples of good practice, as well as policies and strategies their countries implemented during the refugee crisis.