Welcome to Johnny Hunter's website. Invented by Médecins Sans Frontières and collective ET BIM, fictional anti-hero Johnny personifies the brutality, absurdity and contradictions of Europe's migration policies.
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In 2015 one million people had no other choice than to risk their lives on makeshift boats as they attempted to flee across the sea to Europe. As the countries of Europe progressively shut down their borders, in March 2016 it was decided to send refugees landing in Greece back to Turkey. MSF runs search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean and provides assistance in Greece, Italy, northern France and along routes through the Balkans. You too can say #ImNotJohnny and join us in taking a stand against the EU's migration policies that abuse and reject people seeking refuge on European soil, condemning them to a clandestine existence and extreme hardship.

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Johnny Hunter Migrant Buster - EP2 Close the border

In erecting a barbed wire fence on the border, Johnny is applying the European Union's policy designed not only to make its external borders impassible but also to prevent migrants and refugees from moving around within Europe to get to a country where they have ties or a plan for the future. In 2016, Slovenia, Serbia and Macedonia closed their borders to block the route through the Balkans to thousands of people who have ended up trapped in Greece, surviving in appalling conditions deprived of information and hope.

Walid, refugee from Iraq, held in detention centre on Samos, Greece

Walid, refugee from Iraq, held in detention centre on Samos, Greece

Refugee from Iraq, accompanied by his pregnant wife and children.
Interviewed at the «hotspot» on Samos, Greece, 25 March 2016

Refugees in Europe - Creating obstacles [Médecins Sans Frontières]

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