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Appeal court to hear German police racism claim
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 11 - 12 - 2008


Lawyers alleging police racism filed
appeals in Germany Thursday against the acquittal of two officers
accused of letting a black man burn to death in a cell, according to dpa.
Oury Jalloh, 23, who had been arrested for molesting women while
drunk, was killed by the fire when his mattress caught fire in the
cell in Rosslau, 100 kilometres south-west of Berlin, two years ago.
Angry German militants accused police of lying and screamed
"Liar!" at Judge Manfred Steinhoff on Monday when he said there was
not enough evidence to convict the officers.
Both the prosecutor and lawyers representing the Jalloh family in
Sierra Leone have filed appeals in federal court on legal grounds, a
court spokesman in Rosslau said.
In a statement to the parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, the state's
premier Wolfgang Boehmer said, "My government understands the outrage
of the dead man's family and friends at the lack of a finding over
this incident.
"But we ask for their understanding that the discovery of the
truth and administration of justice can only be done by the rules of
law by an independent judiciary."
He also indirectly referred to claims by anti-racist groups that
other police may have lied to protect the two officers of the watch
in the police station.
"This government expects its public servants, and all its other
employees, to contribute to establishing the truth and to help defend
this state from harm," he said.
Jalloh, an immigrant who had applied for German political asylum,
died from the heat of the flames as he lay in the cell, bound hand
and foot. Police say the flames came from his own cigarette lighter.
The court was told the station commander, now 48, turned off a
smoke alarm and went on working. Police said Jalloh was left in
handcuffs and leg restraints on January 7, 2005 because he was drunk
and violent to officers.
The 22-month trial was held in a part of former East Germany where
several ugly racist incidents have occurred in the past. An Oury
Jalloh Memorial Committee was set up to press charges and pay the
lawyers.
Judge Steinhoff went outside the court on Monday evening to try to
discuss the verdict with the inflamed demonstrators on the street,
but they verbally abused him.


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