Germany: Oury Jalloh demonstration
geman | 17.12.2011 16:54 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression
In Berlin a demonstration was held in order to remember the victims of nazi violence. The solidarity group of Oury Jalloh therefor published a call. Oury Jalloh was a refugee in the city of Dessau, who was burnt alive in a death cell of the local police headquater. The trial against one of the murderers is supposed to come to an end in early 2012. Adequate reactions to the court decision will be announced.
Here the translation of the call for the demonstration.
Here the translation of the call for the demonstration.
Rally against police brutality, Nazis and Faschists!
Since the beginning of November, it is known that Nazis have killed at least ten people in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1998. The victims or, as the case may be, their parents had come from Greece or Turkey. The constitutional offices and police supposedly had no knowledge of these Nazi networks, even though in 1998 pipe bombs, explosives and weapons were found in the rooms rented by the networks. Until the deaths of two members of a Nazi network, investigative authorities report to have been looking for a “Turkish Mafia.” In the media even now, the dehumanising term “Döner Murders” is being used to describe the series of killings. There were obviously many contacts between the undercover police and the Nazis, which produced among other things stamped falsified passports from authorities. Nevertheless, the attempt is being made to hide the impending allegation from public view by claiming that it is about the failure of the investigative authorities. Much more likely is that the state saw and knowingly allowed the Nazis to operate—to kill. Some of the undercover officers were present during the murders. In a search for a “Drug and Racketeering Mafia”, the authorities wiped away the traces of the real perpetrators.
This is in line with the behaviour of organs of the state when people die as a result of racist and dehumanising police brutality. The media writes what the state announces and uncritically reports how many drugs the murder victims had taken or whether they had been carrying kitchen knives. The police officers had only been doing their jobs and those who died are to blame for their own deaths—so reads the public story.
Even in “cases” like Christy Schwundeck, who was sitting down when she was shot by police officers in an employment office in Frankfurt am Main on 19th May 2011, it is argued that she attacked and injured a female officer with a kitchen knife. The same as with Oury Jalloh, Dennis, etc., the state attorney knew, without ever investigating, how it could have been that a person dies at the hands of the police. The investigations were either terminated or, only by pressure from communities that supported the victims or their families, forced into the legal process. In these trials, the attempt is, given the absurd circumstances, to describe why the officers should not be responsible for the deaths of, e.g., Oury Jalloh. In the case of Oury Jalloh, even after the BGH vacated the acquittals in the first Oury Jalloh Trial, the same sad game is taking place in the long appeal process before the Regional Court of Magdeburg that took place in the Dessau Regional Court trial of 2007 and 2008. Enough!
The Initiative in remembrance of Oury Jalloh wants to demonstrate with you against Nazi and state violence. The cover-up of Nazi terror and the acquittals of police officers after racist and dehumanising killings are two sides of the same blood-stained coin.
Break the Silence!
Since the beginning of November, it is known that Nazis have killed at least ten people in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1998. The victims or, as the case may be, their parents had come from Greece or Turkey. The constitutional offices and police supposedly had no knowledge of these Nazi networks, even though in 1998 pipe bombs, explosives and weapons were found in the rooms rented by the networks. Until the deaths of two members of a Nazi network, investigative authorities report to have been looking for a “Turkish Mafia.” In the media even now, the dehumanising term “Döner Murders” is being used to describe the series of killings. There were obviously many contacts between the undercover police and the Nazis, which produced among other things stamped falsified passports from authorities. Nevertheless, the attempt is being made to hide the impending allegation from public view by claiming that it is about the failure of the investigative authorities. Much more likely is that the state saw and knowingly allowed the Nazis to operate—to kill. Some of the undercover officers were present during the murders. In a search for a “Drug and Racketeering Mafia”, the authorities wiped away the traces of the real perpetrators.
This is in line with the behaviour of organs of the state when people die as a result of racist and dehumanising police brutality. The media writes what the state announces and uncritically reports how many drugs the murder victims had taken or whether they had been carrying kitchen knives. The police officers had only been doing their jobs and those who died are to blame for their own deaths—so reads the public story.
Even in “cases” like Christy Schwundeck, who was sitting down when she was shot by police officers in an employment office in Frankfurt am Main on 19th May 2011, it is argued that she attacked and injured a female officer with a kitchen knife. The same as with Oury Jalloh, Dennis, etc., the state attorney knew, without ever investigating, how it could have been that a person dies at the hands of the police. The investigations were either terminated or, only by pressure from communities that supported the victims or their families, forced into the legal process. In these trials, the attempt is, given the absurd circumstances, to describe why the officers should not be responsible for the deaths of, e.g., Oury Jalloh. In the case of Oury Jalloh, even after the BGH vacated the acquittals in the first Oury Jalloh Trial, the same sad game is taking place in the long appeal process before the Regional Court of Magdeburg that took place in the Dessau Regional Court trial of 2007 and 2008. Enough!
The Initiative in remembrance of Oury Jalloh wants to demonstrate with you against Nazi and state violence. The cover-up of Nazi terror and the acquittals of police officers after racist and dehumanising killings are two sides of the same blood-stained coin.
Break the Silence!
geman