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"Deportation of this family is a scandal": Police pick up mother, father and three children in the middle of the night

2022-07-17T02:51:19.066Z


"Deportation of this family is a scandal": Police pick up mother, father and three children in the middle of the night Created: 07/17/2022, 04:45 am By: Christiane Breitenberger, Nikola Obermeier The Esiovwa family: Father Nicholas Esiovwa (49), mother Faith Ilhobe (40) and children Stefanie (11, left), Claudia (6) and Gabriel (10) were deported on Tuesday night. © private A well-integrated fa


"Deportation of this family is a scandal": Police pick up mother, father and three children in the middle of the night

Created: 07/17/2022, 04:45 am

By: Christiane Breitenberger, Nikola Obermeier

The Esiovwa family: Father Nicholas Esiovwa (49), mother Faith Ilhobe (40) and children Stefanie (11, left), Claudia (6) and Gabriel (10) were deported on Tuesday night.

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A well-integrated family with three children from Karlsfeld who needed protection was deported to Nigeria on Tuesday night.

The indignation about the actions of the immigration authorities is great.

Dachau – Not even a year ago, the deportation of the well-integrated asylum seeker Moussa Nomoko in the Dachau district caused horror among the population and at a high political level.

Above all, the way the deportation was carried out shocked people at the time.

At that time, a young man had been summoned to the district office under the pretext of false facts and taken away in handcuffs like a criminal and then deported.

Now a well-integrated family has been picked up by the police in the middle of the night and deported.

Deportation of a well-integrated family: The police came at 2 a.m

The children of the Ilhobe/Esiovwa family were absent from school on Tuesday morning and the parents could not be reached on their mobile phones.

Julie Richardson, an employee at the day care center in Karlsfeld, where his son Gabriel is being cared for, sounded the alarm.

In the evening she drove to the family's apartment in the refugee accommodation on Hochstrasse in Karlsfeld.

"The neighbors told me that the police came at 2 a.m. and took the family away," reports Julie Richardson.

The family is said to have landed in Lagos, Nigeria, on Tuesday afternoon.

"Anyone who does something like this, to deport such a heavily burdened family, has a heart of stone," says the psychologist.

The family consists of father Nicholas Esiovwa (49), mother Faith Ilhobe (40) and children Stefanie (11), Gabriel (10) and Claudia (6).

The family came to Germany from Nigeria in 2015.

Well-integrated family deported: father worked, children were well integrated

The Esiovwa family was about to submit their case to the Bavarian Hardship Commission, as reported by Stephan Dünnwald from the Bavarian Refugee Council.

The father had been a valued employee of a Munich company since 2017, until he was no longer allowed to work.

Thanks to good medication, he has his autoimmune disease under control.

The children were well integrated into school and their circle of friends.

"Since the fall of last year, the family has lived in fear of being deported," reports Julie Richardson.

The psychologist has been accompanying Gabriel and his family since 2018. She tells how well the ten-year-old has developed.

He suffers from a gene mutation, which has severely delayed his development.

"Now he's a strong and good-natured boy who is also very popular in the group." Richardson reports that the parents "were always cooperative, kept to deadlines and also gave Gabriel the best support at home".

Father suffers from autoimmune disease, child from a gene mutation

Not only the father has health problems, the mother also became ill.

They were both depressed, had trouble sleeping, fear of being deported in the middle of the night.

"And now the nightmare has come true," Richardson said.

As Nicholas Esiovwa reported, his family was accompanied by 13 police officers, "they surrounded us like criminals and pushed us to the plane".

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Of course, the family hoped to stay here.

And according to the Refugee Council, the chances that she would get a residence permit were good.

On the one hand, by submitting the case to the hardship commission, which the Dachau immigration office knew about.

"On the other hand, the family met the requirements for an opportunity right of residence, which was decided in the cabinet last week," says Stephan Dünnwald from the Bavarian Refugee Council.

According to District Administrator Stefan Löwl, this is not the case; the immigration authorities in Dachau did not extend the toleration, which is a condition for the right to stay, at the end of November 2021.

At a time when the framework conditions for the right of residence were already public knowledge.

Hardship Commission agreed to deportation according to District Administrator Löwl

In addition, the office of the hardship commission informed the immigration authorities in writing that “there is nothing against the further implementation of measures to end the stay in accordance with the existing legal regulations,” said Löwl in a statement.

On the commemoration day of flight and expulsion, of all days, Bavaria deports this family, tearing apart the ties and life plans of the children in particular, who have spent most of their lives in Bavaria

Stephan Dünnwald from the Bavarian Refugee Council

“Bavaria deports this family on the commemoration day of flight and expulsion, tearing apart the ties and life plans of the children in particular, who have spent most of their lives in Bavaria.

Without the appropriate medication, the father's health is at great risk, as is the boy's development," criticizes Dünnwald.

“The deportation of this very well integrated family is a scandal.

Employer, school and caregiver supported the family.

The completely unnecessary deportation just before the entry into force of the Opportunity Residence Law leads to the conclusion that in Bavaria many of those who would benefit from the law are to be deported quickly.”

Aid group Karlsfeld appalled by the procedure

The family is also known to the Karslfeld support group and is appalled by the actions of the district office.

"We very much regret that well-integrated, friendly people are simply deported and that they are not honored for doing their best here," says Max Eckhardt, spokesman for the helpers' group.

Nicholas Esiovwa was so well integrated and independent "that he no longer needed our help as a group of helpers".

Within the framework of the possibilities that the legislature allows him, he has integrated himself as best as possible.

Eckhardt alludes to the different regulations of Ukrainian and other refugees - especially the opportunity to work.

Nicholas Esiovwa has worked for a Munich building cleaning company since 2017, and his company describes him in a letter of support as "a very responsible, reliable and extremely committed employee who has acquired very good specialist knowledge".

In December, his work permit was no longer valid when his toleration expired.

The company was appalled.

In her letter she writes: "Thanks to his friendly and helpful nature, he is popular with superiors, customers and employees alike.

We, as well as our customers, very much regret that Mr. Esiovwa is currently not allowed to work.

Employees like him are very rare.”

Procedure triggers frustration among helpers

For Max Eckhard, the actions of the authorities are incomprehensible.

"Employers are desperately looking for staff and here is someone who is well integrated, does a good job and is not a criminal and is not allowed to work." Such an approach triggers considerable potential for frustration among the helper groups.

This is also one of the reasons why more and more people stop getting involved.

"They want to raid their piggy banks to help him and his family.

They would give all their savings for him.”

Psychologist Julie Richardson

Julie Richardson reported to Gabriel's groupmates at social training on Wednesday afternoon what happened to Gabriel and his family.

The children's reaction: "They want to raid their piggy banks to help him and his family.

They would give all their savings for him.”

"Trust in you as the head of the district authority has been severely damaged" - Member of the Bundestag Michael Schrodi criticizes District Administrator Stefan Löwl in a public letter

At the end of March, a discussion on the topic of practical problems and contradictions in asylum and residence law took place in the district office of Dachau.

As various participants in the conversation describe, District Administrator Stefan Löwl made the following statement with regard to the upcoming right of residence: Since November/December 2021 he has given the instruction to the immigration office that no deportations in the district of Dachau should be carried out for six months for people who move to this Scheme fit, be carried out.

If necessary, this instruction could be extended to nine months.


Member of the Bundestag Michael Schrodi was also present at this conversation.

When he heard about the nightly deportation of his family, he wrote an open letter to District Administrator Stefan Löwl, in which he made the most serious allegations against him.

“They completely tore a well-integrated family that was dependent on help and protection out of their lives and took away all perspectives.

This process is one of a number of legally and humanely unacceptable deportations,” Schrodi writes.

In view of the statement made by District Administrator Löwl during the conversation in March, Schrodi adds: "Due to the recent events, despite the joint conversation and the assurances you gave, the trust in you as the head of the district authority has been severely damaged."

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Source: merkur

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