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What does the new opinion mean in the case of Oury Jalloh?

2019-10-29T13:43:55.537Z


Oury Jalloh was burned in a police cell in Dessau in 2005, and the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown today. Now an opinion raises new questions. What happens next in the scandalous case?



  • Why is?

For almost 15 years, the Oury Jalloh case has been dealing with justice, politics and civil society in Saxony-Anhalt. The asylum-seeker from Sierra Leone was burned in a detention cell by the Dessau police on 7 January 2005. The exact circumstances of death are still unclear, allegedly fixed on a fireproof mattress Jalloh the fire itself.

The Magdeburg district court fined a civil servant for careless homicide in 2012 because he did not provide for sufficient supervision of the prisoner. At the same time, the court underpinned the standpoint that Jalloh was probably responsible for the fire. This version of the story is considered by critics to be untenable.

Recently, relatives of Jallohs had tried by means of a so-called lawsuit enforcement method to force the judiciary to new investigations against police on duty at that time. This application rejected the Higher Regional Court Naumburg in the past week. Now the "Initiative Oury Jalloh" has submitted an opinion, according to which Jalloh may have been badly treated before his death.

  • What is in the report?

According to the initiative, there are clear indications of mistreatment of Jalloh shortly before his death. This comes from the forensic expertise that the radiologist Boris Bodelle has created. Bodelle is Professor and Senior Physician at the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of the University Hospital in Frankfurt am Main.

The initiative quoted from Bodelles report: "After reviewing the image files of the computer tomography of 31.03.2005 of the body of Oury Jalloh bone fractures of the nasal bone, the bony nasal septum and a fracture system in the anterior cranial vault and a fracture of the 11th rib right side detectable. It can be assumed "that these changes occurred before the death.

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In his report, Bodelle points out, among other things, to special inflammations, as the "taz" reports: These showed that Jalloh must still have lived when the injuries had been inflicted on him. Consequently, the fractures were not added to him during firefighting or transport to the mortuary.

  • Will the case be reopened?

It would be surprising if the judiciary were to initiate new investigations on its own initiative. The Attorney General of Saxony-Anhalt rejected this last year on the grounds that there was a lack of "provable evidence that could exclude inflammation of the mattress by Oury Jalloh and provoke inflammation by police officers or third parties."

This should not have changed from the point of view of the judiciary now - because the report does not prove the thesis of relatives, Jalloh had been killed by police. However, the initiative argues that the expertise calls into question the officially accepted timing of the events of 7 January 2005. Thus, an attack on Jalloh could also be a possible motive for murder - according to this argument, fire could have served to cover up police brutality.

The left in the state argue that the existence of new knowledge must now inevitably lead to new investigations. "Given the importance of the case and the gravity of the suspicion standing in the room 'Oury Jalloh - that was murder' the Attorney General would be the right instance for it," says a statement of the domestic spokeswoman for the group, Henriette Quade.

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"Why does it take an externally commissioned expert opinion to discover these injuries," she writes, "and has the judiciary actually done everything necessary and possible to clear up the death of Oury Jalloh?" Quade also criticizes that the state parliament rejected a committee of inquiry. The fact that the special investigators used by the governing coalition still had not begun their work, also prove "the lack of education will".

How the case continues, is currently hard to see. The lawyer Beate Böhler, representative of the bereaved Jallohs, had brought in January further legal action into the game: It is conceivable a constitutional complaint, if necessary, you will move to the European Court of Human Rights.

Source: spiegel

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