The family of asylum-seeker Oury Jalloh, who died in police custody, wants to force the judiciary to reopen the case in court. Gabriele Heinecke, lawyer of the relatives of Jalloh, had requested a so-called plea enforcement at the higher regional court Naumburg, is called it in a communication of the "initiative in memory of Oury Jalloh".

The application also includes the substantiation of a sufficient suspicion against two former police officers of the Dessau police station, it goes on to say. If the Higher Regional Court should grant the application for a lawsuit, must immediately be charged with murder against the two officials.

Jalloh, a native of Sierra Leone, died in a fire in a detention cell of the Dessau police on 7 January 2005. The case is considered a judicial scandal, the exact circumstances are not clarified until today. Supposedly, the fixed to a fireproof mattress Jalloh the fire itself.

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Deceased Asylum Seeker: The Case Oury Jalloh

At the end of November, the Attorney General of Saxony-Anhalt had finally decided not to reopen the case. A complaint of the survivors of Jalloh against the previous procedure cessation of 12 October 2017 was therefore unfounded - because "a suspicion against named or unnamed police officers of the police station Dessau or against other third parties does not exist".

The investigators had re-sighted all the case files. "As a result of the test, no provable evidence has emerged that could rule out inflammation of the mattress by Oury Jalloh and provoke inflammation by police officers or third parties," the agency said.

There is no evidence of a foreign killing or even a murder plot, it also lacking a motive and an opportunity. The murder mystery postulated by critics for years is a purely speculative conjecture. "Likewise, the assumption of 'institutional racism' is out of thin air."

Critics, especially the leftists, had repeatedly warned against the threat of kidnapping the case. In October, a self-proclaimed "International Independent Commission of Inquiry", which emerged from the "Initiative in Memory of Oury Jalloh", began its work (read more about this topic here).

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Attorney Beate Böhler, who was also involved in the trial for Jalloh's survivors, now brought further legal action into play. Should it not come to the lawsuit enforcement, follow a constitutional complaint, said the Berlin lawyer the Deutschlandfunk. If necessary, according to Böhler, they will go to the European Court of Human Rights.

Politically, the debate on the case continues: The state government has appointed the renowned lawyers Manfred Nötzel and Jerzy Monday as special investigators, who should check the case independently of the judiciary. When to expect first results is so far unclear.