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Dessau-Roßlau (dpa) - With flower arrangements and a rally in Dessau-Roßlau the death of the asylum seeker Oury Jalloh was remembered.

16 years ago, on January 7, 2015, the man from Sierra Leone died in a detention cell at the police station.

The circumstances of death are not considered clear even after two regional court trials.

According to investigations by the authorities, Jalloh is said to have started a fire in the detention cell himself, although his hands and feet were handcuffed in the room.

According to the autopsy, he had severe burns.

A Berlin initiative to commemorate Oury Jalloh continues to advocate that the case should not be filed.

She accuses the public prosecutor and the police of covering up.

"The facts speak for it," said a spokeswoman on Thursday.

At the rally in front of the police station it was read: "Oury Jalloh, that was murder".

Around 150 people came to the building, as a police spokeswoman said.

The organizers spoke from 150 to 200 participants.

The Jalloh case was investigated in Saxony-Anhalt by two special advisers appointed by the state parliament.

Their report listed a number of errors, but so far this has had no consequences.

The death of the man moves people beyond the German borders to this day.

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The organizers of this year's commemoration had announced that they would remember Oury Jalloh on a smaller scale than in previous years because of the corona pandemic, while observing the rules to contain the pandemic.

Called for this in twelve cities nationwide, as a spokeswoman for the initiative said, including Berlin, Leipzig, Erfurt, Essen, Frankfurt / Main and Hamburg.

Call of the initiative to commemorate Oury Jalloh