A relative of mine, with whom I came from Iran and we crossed the borders together, was sent back to Turkey separately. We lost track of him. A month later, he called his family. He told them that he was deported to Afghanistan. (…) EPILOGUE A.K., from Afghanistan173 / pushed back from Evros in December 2011 In lieu of a conclusion we will present a complete interview which entails almost all of the findings relevant to push backs presented in this report, as experienced by two European (French) journalists. A.K.: It’s my second time that I come to Greece. I finally arrived here five months ago, but the first time when I tried from the land borders, I was sent back. That happened almost a year ago. It was really very cold. I think it was December or something. We were three families: my family, my aunt’s family and a woman’s family. When we arrived at the Greek side of the border the Greek police found us. We were already out of the river and had walked for about 10-15 minutes on the Greek side. They didn’t see us when we were crossing the river. They found us later and sent us back with a boat. They were 8-9 officers. When they put us in the motorboat three of them were with us. The Turkish police transferred us in a camp in Edirne, where we were detained for five days and then we were deported back to Afghanistan. C.B. (journalist), O.J. (photojournalist)174 / pushed back from Samos 28.7.13 C.: We are working for a magazine and we had been following some Afghan refugees from Afghanistan, for about two months. We were following them, posing as Afghans, so we didn’t show our identities to almost anyone. We went on a zodiac, an inflatable boat with 28 refugees, mostly Afghans and Iranians. O.: There were two women and no children. C.: We tried to go from Kusadasi in Turkey, to Samos island. We took this boat late at night, the smugglers were actually only putting the boat in the water. Then we jumped inside and they left. It was one of the passengers who was sailing and we went all the way towards Samos. It’s about 15 kilometres away from the (Turkish) coasts. And after approximately 2-3 hours we arrived. O.: After two hours. C.: We were for two hours on the boat, which was quite crowded and the engine was small, when a Greek coastguards came. They started shouting at us, they told us not to move in broken English. Then, they threw a rope to tie the inflatable boat to their own patrol boat. It was a white and a grey boat that was not too big. It’s quite a small one and it had a back stand where you could walk. And then, you could walk on the ladder, on the back of the boat. O.: When they arrested us, we were close to the island of Samos. We could see it, we were really close to it, I would say, maybe at one kilometre. C.: They were wearing uniforms and black masks. Black uniforms. 173 | Interviewed in Athens (Greece), December 15, 2012 68 | aNNEX-iNTERVIEWS 174 | Interviewed November 1, 2013 ePILOG | 69