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Potsdam, (dpa / bb) - The case of Mozambican contract worker Joao Manuel Diogo, who died in the GDR in 1986, is not being reopened.
In response to a request from the German Press Agency, the Potsdam public prosecutor's office announced on Friday that intensive reviews of the death investigation files from 1986 and the documents available to the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi records had not revealed any evidence of a homicide or manipulation.
In addition, the public prosecutor's office "followed up on all information that had become known, in particular through interviews with respondents".
"The result is not to assume a death-causing external influence," it said.
Therefore, the public prosecutor is "denied the start of investigations".
The 23-year-old Mozambican was found dead next to the track bed on June 30, 1986 shortly after midnight between the Borne (Mark) stop and Belzig train station in Brandenburg by employees of the GDR's Deutsche Reichsbahn.
The contract worker was with four friends on the way to Jeber-Bergfrieden, a district of the town of Coswig in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, where he worked as a woodworker.
According to his companions, Diogo was attacked and beaten up by neo-Nazis on the train.
He is said to have been thrown out of the moving train while still alive, with his feet tied up.
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The Brandenburg left-wing member of the state parliament Andrea Johlige had made the case topical again in June of last year with a request to the state government.
According to your request, the GDR authorities are said to have covered up the circumstances of the crime.
Sometimes there was talk of an accident at work, another time Diogo fell drunk from the train, she said.
As a result, the Potsdam public prosecutor set up a "review process" for the man's death.
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