A fence without a gate

Along the fence are the traces of the refugees. Someone have left the life jacket they used across the Mediterranean.

For thousands of years, people have crossed continents for trade, travel, adventure, and in a quest for a better life.
After the civil war in Syria broke out, as a result of the Arab Spring, the flow of refugees to Europe is at its highest in decades. Every day people put their lives in danger to flee from the war and the poverty which followed with it.
They seek to Europe for a better life, but the journey is dangerous. So far this year, more than 3,000 people have drowned in the Mediterranean while fleeing in overcrowded boats.
They carry their possessions on their backs for a distance as long as from Chicago to Los Angeles. After 3.000 km of walking, they meet a three meters high barbed wire fence.

On the other side of the fence is Serbia. Many run through this pit before the fence was built.

The refugees do not want to register before they have arrived in the country they will seek asylum in. The first country they are registered, they can be sent back to.

After they have run 100 meters through bushes, one can no longer be seen from the border.
But they are not safe here either, for 50 meters forward its road with police surveillance on it.

Closer to the official border crossing is only used barbed wire to keep refugees out.

Converse left behind.

Through this cornfield many fled from the police. Now it is just a tent, trash and shoe prints left.

Water station for the police still guarding the border.

One of the paths that lead away from the border and is the way into Europe.

There are police and military checkpoints along the fence. Just to be sure that no refugees coming through.

The right-wing government in Hungary will not let the refugees into their country, and as a consequence decided to close the border.
The prime minister Viktor Orban in Hungary said: "Member states of the European Union will be forced to protect themelves.»
Hungary is in such context 'defending themselves' by violence, pepper spray and barbed wire against the refugees.
At September 15th 2015, the barbed wire fence along the border with Serbia was finished, just a few days before this border was the entrance to EU for hundreds of thousands of people.
Now there is only a fence, some policemen and traces of the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II left.