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GERMANY: 25 deportees died

01 September 1994

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Nigeria has protested to the German government over the deaths of 25 Nigerian deportees over the past three years. The latest to die, Kola Bankole, was injected with a large dose of sedatives at Frankfurt airport on 31 August, as he resisted deportation. The Nigerian embassy said that most of the 25 deaths occurred in police custody, with the majority of deportees dying of brain haemorrhages. The embassy also complained of the length of time it took the German authorities to notify them; they had only just been notified about a man who died three years before.

The protests come at a time when the German police are under attack for systematic racism. A Berlin group which helps the 12,000-strong Vietnamese community has complained of severe police brutality and racism. Berlin's Interior Minister admitted in September that 46 officers are currently under investigation for serious assaults, of whom 12 have been suspended. A Bremen court has condemned the conditions of detention for proposed deportees as inhuman, and has forbidden the use of cells in the central police station until there is a reduction in the numbers of people kept there.

Guardian 23.9.94 Independent 1.10.94 Migration Newssheet September 1994; see story under "Policing".

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