Migrant crisis: Austria kicks out Afghan kickboxer

Name: Migrant crisis: Austria kicks out Afghan kickboxer
Uploaded: 2017-07-29T07:41:45.000Z
Duration: 1 min 29 s
Description: An Afghan kickboxer tells the BBC of his sadness at being expelled from Austria to Croatia.

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An Afghan asylum seeker wept as he told the BBC about being deported to Croatia under a new European Court of Justice ruling.

Roohi - a talented kickboxer - was in a group of Afghans who settled in Austria in 2015, during a massive influx of refugees and migrants via the Balkans.

He spoke to the BBC's Bethany Bell.

Europe

29 July 2017