Refugee camp in Croatia. Gays are being deliberately put in rooms with Chechens!
On May 28, 2025, my boyfriend, Maxim Kulakov, and I crossed the Croatian border through the Liko Petrovo Selo-Izacic point. It was early in the morning, about seven - we were waiting for the point to open.
Upon opening, the border guards took our passports and began a search. They took us outside and told us to wait. About half an hour later, a police van with no windows, bars, pulled up. We were locked inside and taken to an unknown destination.
Twenty minutes later we were in the police station of Korenica, we were able to find out later. We were placed in a building that looked like an insulator and held there for about two hours, after which a police officer came. He asked standard questions in English.
>> When he asked me what we were, I said, “He’s my boyfriend.” At that moment we were very uncomfortable - we saw a clear contempt on the face of the policeman. He chuckled, mumbled something and left.
In the evening of the same day, about eight, we approached the gate of the Porino camp on 41 Saraevskaya Street. At the entrance, security asked us a few questions. And we were allowed in.
We also had interviews inside, where we mentioned the status of our relationship several times. We were given laundry and escorted to room 110. Two men already lived there. We warned that we were afraid of possible aggression, but we were told that all issues would be resolved tomorrow.
We went to bed together because we were separated into different beds. One of the neighbors came back an hour later.
>> When he saw us, he began to behave inappropriately, shouting: “Are you rainbows?” They cut off their heads for this! When he saw the LGBT flag we had hung in front of the bed on the wall, he ripped it off with fury and defiantly tore it.
https://parniplus.com/lgbt-movement/lgbt-v-emigratsii/croatia-lgbt-migration-story