Via the Local:
Many Eritrean and Somalian refugees are taking extreme measures to destroy their fingerprints to avoid being identified and returned to the first country they entered in Europe.
"The most common method is to grind the fingertips down, for example by using sandpaper. They can also easily be worn down on a rough wall of a house," Roger Boxler, head of the refugee reception center at Kreuzlingen, told newspaper Tages Anzeiger.(source)
