{"id":3926,"date":"2018-01-22T15:39:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:54:35","slug":"oury-jalloh-das-war-mord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/allgemein\/oury-jalloh-das-war-mord\/","title":{"rendered":"Oury Jalloh \u2013 it was murder!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_151918_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3927 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_151918_resized-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>It is been 13 years since Oury Jalloh, a young man from Sierra Leone, who came to German seeking for asylum, died in police custody from unexplained circumstances. All evidence leads to a brutal murder in the hands of the German police in the city of Dessau. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">To commemorate the 13 anniversary of the death of Oury Jalloh on the 7<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">th<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> of January this year, \u201cWomen in Exile and Friends\u201d decided to mobilise for the annual demo and instead of attending individually as the case had been in the previous years. The demo which had more than 5,000 participants was demanding for justice to be executed to the murderers of Oury Jalloh. That the case should not be closed until justice is seen to have been done. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">The State Council, Heike Geyer from Halle announced in her press release of 12 October 2017, that she had after careful examination of the available evidence [&#8230;] \u201cclosed the investigation of the death of Oury Jalloh&#8221; because allegedly there is not sufficient evidence and new knowledge to his death was not to be expected, since &#8220;a multitude of possibilities are conceivable&#8221; and consequently a suicide cannot be ruled out.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">This is not the first time, that German police committed unexplained murders and brutality to African refugees and migrants. There has been shooting of defenceless women such as Mariam Sarr and Christy Schwundeck, who in actual facts were spouses of German nationals. Mariam Sarr was shot in her apartment after her estranged husband called the police after a domestic quarrel. Christy Schwundeck was shot outside a labour office in Frankfurt am Main after an argument with the labour officers. Did these two women deserve to die in the hands of the police who in actual fact have a duty to protect them regardless of their skin colour or origin? In these cases and many more of refugees and migrants who died in the hand of the police officers, justice was denied them because the courts did not find the police officers who killed them guilty. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Oury Jalloh was murdered and the initiative in remembrance of Oury Jalloh has repeated this many times to a system in denial. We do not need rocket science to proof that a chained Oury Jalloh could not have lit a fire-proof mattress to burn and kill himself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_152330_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3928 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_152330_resized-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The cases mentioned above are not isolated, the NSU murders took place for over a period of 10 years while the state, refused to investigate the involvement of the state security services. These cases are not exceptional, there have been murders and hate crimes from the neo-nazis which are not handled as they should be. With the populist political climate in the country these cases are rising every day. The perpetrators of these crimes should be prosecuted and the law executed to the highest level.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>We demand justice for all racist killings whether it is from the police or neo-nazis! <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Es ist 13 Jahre her, dass Oury Jalloh, ein junger Mann aus Sierra Leone, der auf der Suche nach Asyl nach Deutschland gekommen war, unter ungekl\u00e4rten Umst\u00e4nden im Polizeigewahrsam starb. Alle Beweise deuten auf einen brutalen Mord in den H\u00e4nden der deutschen Polizei in Dessau hin. Zur Erinnerung des 13 Todestags von Oury Jalloh am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10032,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions\/10032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}