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Breaking into Liberland: Dodging guards with inner-tubes, decoys and diplomats

Published 11/15/2023, 09:30 AM
Updated 11/15/2023, 09:40 AM
Breaking into Liberland: Dodging guards with inner-tubes, decoys and diplomats

Disembarking the Liberty houseboat moored off the frontier of the European Union, were met by a pair of Serbian police officers, their lit squad car nearly blinding us in the dark forest.

How many people are staying on the boat? one asks, holding a large dog at bay. I really dont recall, says my colleague from Reuters. Fortunately, they let us go.

The Croatian border, where officers were serious but friendly. (Elias Ahonen)
Traveling to Liberland on Jedlikas presidential convoy felt like teetering on the edge of reality too real to be unreal, yet still not quite reality. (Elias Ahonen)
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The border guards have a word. (Elias Ahonen)
Jedlika takes a picture of the BORDER CROSSING LIBERLAND-CROATIA sign. Houseboat visible on the right. (Elias Ahonen)
Passports, including from America and Sweden, being stamped as people prepare to board the Liberland houseboat. (Elias Ahonen)
Liberland stamp on an American passport. (Elias Ahonen)
Journalist Elias Ahonen in Liberland. Looks very similar to Croatia in fact. (Elias Ahonen)
Below deck, 26-year-old Patrick Banick, a settler who has been living on the boat for two months, offers me a beer. (Elias Ahonen)
Elias Ahonen (center) with Patrick and Jonas on Liberty, the houseboat where they were living. (Elias Ahonen)
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