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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - Several hundred people remembered the unexplained death of the asylum seeker Oury Jalloh 16 years ago in Hamburg on Thursday.

According to the police, 350 people took part in the rally in front of the Davidwache on the Reeperbahn, and 500 according to the Interventionist Left. The left-wing extremist organization spoke of a murder of Jalloh.

The meeting took place “in memory of the many victims of racist violence and against structural impunity”.

The asylum seeker from Sierra Leone died on January 7, 2005 in a fire in a Dessau police cell.

How exactly his death 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.

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.

Tweet of the Interventionist Left