(hier AUF DEUTSCH) Stop security guard and police violence! Stop criminalizing refugees! Statement by Justizwatch on the police raid in the AEO Bamberg (Bavaria, Germany) on the night of December 11, 2018 18.12.2018 A dispute between Eritrean asylum seekers and security guards in the AnkER Centre of Upper Franconia...
8.11.2018 Pressemitteilung Urteil des Amtsgerichts Augsburg legitimiert massive Polizeigewalt gegen Geflüchtete mit "Generalprävention"– Solidarität und Protest wurden erneut kriminalisiert Der Prozess gegen zwei Gambische Geflüchtete aus der EA Donauwörth vor dem Amtsgericht Augsburg war gestern an nebulöser Beweisführung und Generalkriminalisierung kaum zu überbieten. Das Gericht entschied, die...
https://vimeo.com/296717141 HIER PRESSEMITTEILUNG ZUM URTEIL VOM AMTSGERICHT AUGSBURG AM 7.11.2018 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 25.10.2018 Aufruf (English version) Polizeiangriff Donauwörth - Prozesse gegen Geflüchtete starten am 7. November in Augsburg Der bayerische Staat setzt die strafrechtliche Verfolgung der...
HIER PRESSEMITTEILUNG ZUM URTEIL VOM AMTSGERICHT AUGSBURG AM 7.11.2018 HERE PRESS RELEASE (IN GERMAN) ON THE DECISION OF THE AUGSBURG LOCAL COURT ON NOVEMBER 7 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 25.10.2018 Call for solidarity (Soli-Aufruf auf Deutsch) Donauwörth...
https://vimeo.com/296197583 More information: The Donauwörth court proceedings call...
David Jassey, ehemaliges Mitglied des gambischen Integrationskomitees und dessen Exekutive, berichtet über die Selbstorganisation der gambischen Flüchtlinge im Ersaufnahmeeinrichtung Donauwörth (Bayern) und analysiert die Auswirkungen des massiven Polizeiangriffs im Lager am 14. März 2018. Die 30 gambischen Flüchtlinge, die bei dieser Operation verhaftet wurden, leiden...
David Jassey, a former member of the Gambian Integration Committee and its executive, tells about the self-organisation of the Gambian refugees in the Donauwörth asylum camp (Bavaria, Germany) and analyses the effect of the massive police attack in the the camp on 14 March 2018....
https://vimeo.com/269728539 On May 3, 2018 a massive police attack took place in the Ellwangen state reception center in Baden-Württenberg, Germany. May 9, 2018 A statement by the inhabitants of the asylum reception camp in Ellwangen on the events of the last week „There was a lot of talk about...
https://vimeo.com/268301890 Statement 8th May 2018 Justizwatch Berlin and the Support group against security guard violence in the AEO Bamberg (German version) Security guard violence in the AEO Bamberg – state-sanctioned criminalisation and persecution of refugees The AEO Bamberg, a large reception and deportation camp in the state of Bavaria (Upper...
https://vimeo.com/268301890 Oumar B. was attacked on 27 September 2017 at the AEO Bamberg by a group of private security guards. The Senegalese asylum seeker was at the time living in this large reception and deportation camp located in the state of Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. B's...
As one amongst many cases of unjust criminalisation of refugees in Bavarian transit camps, Aarona K. and Ndiame D. will 27.03.18 be facing trial on false charges for grievous bodily harm (gefährliche Körperverletzung) on private security company employees at the AEO Bamberg. In September 2017 K....
https://vimeo.com/252197618 The inhabitants of the Bamberg AEO transit camp (Bavaria, Germany) protested on 17th January 2018 against the scandalous conditions and treatment they face in the camp. They marched from the camp to the town hall in city center to hand over their petition to the...
https://vimeo.com/248613638 Demonstration 20 December 2017, Deggendorf transit camp Bavaria, Germany No 24 months in this camp! Stop deportations! No to racism and torture of migrants! On Friday 15th December 2017 around 200 people from Sierra Leone – women, men and children – started a 'strike of closed doors' in...
https://vimeo.com/205744424 The demonstration in front of the Embassy of Mali in Berlin on January 31, 2017 was called by the group Djekafo from Halle and Afrique-Europe Interact. It confronted several policies: the embassy's practice of signing travel certificates for deportation of Malians from Germany, a possible...
https://vimeo.com/202126039 La démonstration devant l’ambassade du Mali à Berlin le 31 janvier 2017 a été l’initiative groupe Djekafo et du réseau Afrique-Europe-Interact. ...
https://vimeo.com/191335143 Le 11 Novembre 2016, date anniversaire du sommet de la Valette, les groupes de refugié-e-s et migrant-es Africain-e-s et le réseau Afrique-Europe-Interact se sont rassemblés pour protester devant différentes ambassades africaines à Berlin- Niger, Mali, Maroc- et devant l’organe allemand de développement ((Deutsche Gesellschaft für...
https://vimeo.com/209472961 What is mobility in Africa? What is the broader context of the Valletta process? Why does travelling to Europe today require taking a boat and risking to die? Is there a rising “migratory wave” towards Europe? What is Europe afraid of? Why is circular migration possible...
https://vimeo.com/190826869 What is the impact of the Valletta summit? Which policies is the EU trying to impose to control African mobility? What is Europe’s responsibility in the current crisis? How can we imagine an African agenda on migration? Mignane Diouf (MADE Africa, Dakar) was interviewed at...
https://vimeo.com/189719049 Why are people migrating within and from Africa? Why won’t models for migration control work as planned? What is going on with the trade agreements between the EU and Africa? Milka Isinta (Pan-African Network in Defense of Migrants Rights) was interviewed in Lomé, Togo, October 14-16,...
https://vimeo.com/188901979 L’Académie des Migrations Africaines a été organisée à Lomé au Togo du 14 au 16 octobre 2016, sous la tutelle de l’association pour l’éducation citoyenne Visions Solidaires. Pendant trois jours, les activistes, les représentant-es d’ONG venues de différents pays africains et de la diaspora ont...
https://vimeo.com/179687963 What is a biometric passport? What is the hoax about the Valletta process? What are the reasons that push young people to leave Mali? Inna Touré (Afrique-Europe-Interact, Bamako) was interviewed in Vienna, Austria at the kritnet conference Migration / Criminalisation / Resistance, 26 – 29 May,...
https://vimeo.com/179717891 What is the Valletta process? What is a laissez-passer? How are “transit countries” like Niger used in European plans to control migration? What is the function of the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa? Why are African states complying with the European migration agenda? What are...
Joseph Koroma, a citizen of Sierra Leone, was deported to Nigeria in October 2013. He had been identified as a Nigerian citizen in a MOBILE EMBASSY HEARING* of the Nigerian Embassy in Karlsruhe in June 2012. The Embassy issued him a Nigerian emergency travel certificate...
Yusupha Jarboh, a Gambian citizen, was deported with a charter flight to Nigeria on 6th June 2013 after a Nigerian emergency travel certificate had been issued to him by the Nigerian Embassy in Berlin. Jarboh was identified as a Nigerian citizen in a MOBILE EMBASSY...
https://vimeo.com/185580937 Qu’est-ce que c’est le DULDUNG* (“tolérance’’)? Comment est-ce que l’Etat allemand exerce la pression sur les demandeurs d’asile dont la demande a été rejetée afin qu’ils quittent le pays ? Comment est-ce qu’on produit un DEPORTATION GAP* par des mesures politiques, des lois et la...
https://vimeo.com/210181008 What is “toleration” (DULDUNG*)? How is the German state pressuring rejected asylum seekers to leave the country? What is ASYLUM FRAUD*? How is a DEPORTATION GAP* created and addressed by policies, laws and collaboration between different state actors? Kay Wendel (Bündnis gegen Lager Berlin/Brandenburg & author...
https://vimeo.com/199465362 What happens at a MOBILE EMBASSY HEARING*? What is a DULDUNG*? Why do people use fake identities in the asylum process in Germany? How does German immigration law define and create “criminal” foreigners and refugees? How has protest been organised against forced identification of migrants...
https://vimeo.com/181366851 What happens at a MOBILE HEARING*? Protesters and persons who were invited to the mobile hearing of the Nigerian embassy at the Ordnungsamt Dortmund, Germany, testify. We took part in the protest against the hearing on March 3, 2016. Some weeks later we visited one...
https://vimeo.com/179603466 Yusupha Jarboh (Gambia) and Joseph Koroma (Sierra Leone) were falsely identified as Nigerians at a MOBILE HEARING* of the Nigerian embassy in Germany and deported to Lagos with Nigerian travel certificates. The two men testify about the treatment of West African nationals by German authorities...
https://vimeo.com/179627871 Documentation of two protest actions in 2012 against the deportation collaboration of the Nigerian embassy in Berlin with German authorities. In May 2012 the demonstrators gathered in front of the embassy to protest against the issuing of travel certificates for deportation at the request by...
https://vimeo.com/180239357 What is DULDUNG* (suspension of deportation)? What do “tolerated” persons have to endure in Germany? What does the “obligation to collaborate” with one’s own deportation entail (MITWIRKUNGSPFLICHT*)? How does the German immigration administration feed hate propaganda against foreigners when it refuses work permits from the...
https://vimeo.com/179860072 What is life on Kettenduldung (long-term "toleration") in Germany? How can "tolerated" persons work? Alex Nuhu Banja came to Germany from Sierra Leone in 1997. After the rejection of his asylum application he has resided in Germany with a DULDUNG*. He was interviewed in Wittenberg, Germany...
https://vimeo.com/179822167 Fadi Abdel Ghani’s testimony on a life of 30 years under DULDUNG* (suspension of deportation) and work prohibition in Germany. The Palestinian Ghani came to Germany from Lebanon in 1984. He was interviewed in Wittenberg, Germany on April 16, 2015. * see also GLOSSARY...