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Germany: Deportee suicides

01 May 1996

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The German Government in answer to a parliamentary question from the Green Party concerning the number of suicides or attempted suicides between 1993 and 1995 amongst asylum-seekers under threat of deportation gave the following figures: In Baden-Wurttemberg there were 18 attempted suicides. In Bavaria there were 11 suicides and 5 attempted suicides. In Berlin there were 4 attempted suicides. In Saxony there was 1 attempted suicide. In Thuringia there were 2 suicides and 1 attempted suicide. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern there were 2 attempted suicides (by the same person). These suicides and attempted suicides were related to deportations. In Hamburg, where deportations are not carried out on asylum--seekers who are in accordance with the Geneva Convention, there were no suicides or suicide attempts; however, a Kurdish asylum-seeker committed suicide in December 1995. The German government is not of the opinion that an improvement in the conditions of detention prior to deportation would have any effect on the number of suicides or suicide attempts.

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