After mistreatment in a refugee home in Burbach, the Siegen district court sentenced the then home director. It imposed a suspended sentence of one year and three months. As a probationary condition, the man must pay 1200 euros to the UN refugee aid.
Under the leadership of the accused refugees were repeatedly locked in a so-called problem room in the facility in North Rhine-Westphalia between 2013 and 2014. The judges charged the accused with 33 cases of deprivation of liberty.
In his favor, the court evaluated above all his comprehensive confession. But it had the 38-year-old already at the beginning of a probation suspended probation. In order to counter the numerous house order violations in the overcrowded facility, he had ordered residents to be accommodated in another room in the event of misconduct. In the course of time, however, it was clear to him that they were also incarcerated against their will, sometimes for days.
In addition, the defendant created the basis for an arbitrary punishment system through the creation of the "problem room": some in a parallel proceeding accused security guards and caregivers are said to have repeatedly beaten, kicked and also humiliated the incarcerated residents.