The family of the asylum-seeker Oury Jalloh, who died in a detention cell in a fire, failed with her request for further legal clarification of the case. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Naumburg had rejected the request of a relatives of Jalloh for legal action as inadmissible, it said in a statement.
Jalloh was found dead after a fire in a Dessau police cell on January 7, 2005 with significant burns. Whether Jalloh himself had ignited the mattress on which he was tied, is still unclear.
However, in 2012 the Magdeburg district court sentenced a civil servant for negligent homicide to a fine - thus he had not ensured that Jalloh was adequately supervised. It seemed to the court at that time as likely that the fire had been laid by Jalloh himself.
The family of the man from Sierra Leone proceeds from murder and tries for years with further procedures to clarify the case in court. From the point of view of the Higher Regional Court (OLG), it was not able to present the possible facts in the current proposal in a coherent and sufficient way.