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Dessau-Roßlau (dpa / sa) - On the 16th anniversary of the death of the asylum seeker Oury Jalloh, today in Dessau-Roßlau the man's fate, which has not yet been clarified, is remembered.
As the organizers of the commemoration announced, this year, in view of the corona pandemic, this will be done at a distance and in a small circle.
Jalloh died on January 7, 2005 in a fire in a Dessau police cell.
How exactly the death of the asylum seeker from Sierra Leone came about could not be clarified in two court proceedings against two police officers.
According to the authorities' investigations, Jalloh is said to have started the fire in the detention cell of the Dessau police station himself.
The man was reportedly handcuffed and feet.
An initiative to commemorate Oury Jalloh in Berlin fights to this day not to put the case on file.
She accuses the public prosecutor and the police of covering up.
Jalloh could never set himself on fire in the cell.
The accusation was repeatedly raised that he had been murdered.
The case had been investigated by two special advisers appointed by the state parliament.
Their report listed a number of errors, but so far this has had no consequences.
According to the autopsy, it is certain that Jalloh was found with significant burns in a cell at the Dessau police station.
That was where he died.
According to the investigation, he was in custody on charges of molesting several women.
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Call of the initiative to commemorate Oury Jalloh