Love brought Nizar Shoukry from his native Syria to Croatia and eventually a dental practice in the border town of Tovarnik. Thirty years later, war is bringing his countrymen, in a chaotic, desperate tide flowing past Shoukry's door en route to Germany and a promise of asylum.
But the 50-year-old dentist — now an informal liaison between police and refugees — says his sees impostors among them.
"I see so many people from Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan saying they come from Syria and many do not speak Arabic at all," he said in his adopted Croatian.