An Iranian migrant got stabbed, Saturday night, in Sarajevo, after a fight broke out between two migrants from Iran.
The Sarajevo Canton police said they received a call around 11 p.m., saying that a fight between two Iranian migrants broke out in Sarajevo’s Municipality of Old Town.
Upon their arrival, they concluded that one of the migrants received life-threatening injuries in the chest area, most likely caused by a knife-like object.
The migrant was urgently treated at the Sarajevo clinical centre and the on-duty prosecutor was notified of the event.
From the beginning of the year until early June, Sarajevo faced a large influx of migrants who loitered around the city centre and one of the central parks where close to 300 of them could be found, at one point.
The state authorities got involved in solving this problem which threatened to become a health hazard and moved all the migrants from the park to the Salakovac migrant centre near the southern town of Mostar, where some 270 migrants were moved at the end of May.
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The migrants’ stay was becoming a humanitarian and health crisis because they had no accommodation and were forced to sleep out in the open, but there was also the issue of hygiene.
The migrants started developing scabies and other diseases caused by the lack of hygiene and medical attention.
Migrants continue to come to Sarajevo, but they do not stay for more than a couple of days after which they head off to Bihac and Velika Kladusa, two northern-most towns near the border with Croatia.
Their ultimate goal is not staying in Bosnia, but continuing their path to western European countries where they hope to find work and stay.
