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Leipzig (dpa / sn) - 16 years ago, the asylum seeker Oury Jalloh died in a police cell, now hundreds of people in Leipzig have remembered his unexplained death.
According to the police, about 250 people took part in a rally on Thursday evening on Biedermannstrasse / Auerbachstrasse, which is more than the previously set limit of 200 participants .
There were no incidents.
Another meeting took place in the afternoon in the Richard-Wagner-Strasse area.
About 120 people took part, the police said.
This too went without incident.
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 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.
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