The hardest edge of Europe’s migration policy is encountered in the form of masked men. Their violent actions against vulnerable people on the move, often seeking international protection, are far removed from discussions on managed migration in Brussels, Berlin or Warsaw. On the Croatia-Bosnia border, migrants are brutally beaten and ejected across the border. ‘They beat everyone very hard. They took our shoes, jackets, money, and mobile phones. They took everything’, says one migrant. He and his fellows bear the shocking injuries of the beating they have just endured from Croatian police. ‘There is a pattern showing an overwhelming consistency of the severity of injuries. The kind of violence taking place is something co-ordinated, systematic and organised’, says Dan Song, Field Co-ordinator for the area for Doctors Without Borders. The investigation traced some of the policemen on the border via social media and satellite imagery; one offered his testimony: ‘we know it's illegal but who can say no to the general command? There was an instruction by the government and by the minister of interior Božinović to do it that way’.