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The man doesn’t want to lose a public word anymore. Not in this matter. He, who has given one of most competitive German legal cases a mad, is silent – also on question of why he changed his mind completely after twelve years. The man is Folker Bittmann, head of Public Prosecutor’s office Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. For more than a decade he assumed that a black African named Oury Jalloh burned himself in a Desauer police station. Now he suddenly thinks possible, which is hard to believe: that German police officers at a German police station could have overpoured and lit arrested Oury Jalloh with fire accelerator. Not suicide, it’s murder.
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But Bittmann is no longer speaking, he has been deprived of procedure – shortly after preparation of a record note in which he establishes his change of heart. Bittmanns Note – It is time – stands for anor spectacular turn in case of dead Oury Jalloh.
Not only friends of Jalloh want to finally enlighten his death. © Christian Schroedter/Imago
The case is so tangled, interspersed with lies and riddled with errors that he may never be enlightened. What is certain is that rule of law is attributable to this disaster itself. The name Jalloh could be forever a sad example of miserable police work. Or as an example of vicious corps spirit at police.
Oury Jalloh, 36 years old, from Sierra Leone, died on January 7, 2005, in detention cell of Sauerland. His body, fixed on a foam mattress in a tiled room, went up in flames. The long-upholding suicide sis of investigators goes like this: Jalloh has, tied up on arms and legs, strongly drunk and possibly also under cocaine influence, somehow a lighter from his trouser pocket fumbled and his mattress lit. That alone would be a police scandal: how can a person burn in a police station, i.e. in state custody? And how can some police officers do anything to prevent case from being elucidated?
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There have been two processes, hundreds of newspaper articles and television contributions. For years, Jalloh has been busy with courts, reviewers, prosecutors, Ministry of Justice, Landtag deputies and activists. And public interest is not declining – on contrary. “A man has come to death in custody of state,” says provincial minister Anne-Marie Keding (CDU) today, “You must not just accept that, this is a gaping wound of our country.” And it promises that all reference will be investigated. That Keding is now at forefront of Scouts is politically wise. Recent events have ensured that cause of Jalloh is now being reoccupied by Minister of Justice, much more than she thought possible when she took office 2016.
This article comes from time No. 10/2018. Here you can read entire output.
On his death day, Jalloh – a rejected asylum seeker, is only tolerated in Germany – in morning hours after a disco visit to Dessau city centre. Shortly before, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for drug trafficking, but verdict is not yet final. Jalloh is more than drunk, 2.98 per mille will be found later in his blood, along with traces of cocaine. He speaks to two staff members of city cleaning team several times and asks m to lend him ir mobile phone. The women feel harassed and call police. Jalloh cannot prove himself, so two officials take him to station. He fights fiercely, which is why he is brought into custody cell 5. There he is tied with hands and feet to metal irons, which are in floor and wall. This is illegal because no judge is involved. The police officers, who were in service in some cases at time of GDR, claim that y had not known.
The mattress on which Jalloh spends next hours has an artificial lear, actually fireproof cover. Jalloh was previously searched by one of officials. In his trouser pockets were supposedly nothing but a cell phone and handkerchiefs. From n on re is no more secure knowledge, just conjecture.
