„Deportation is much worse for an isolated person than if we‘re many. You should‘t give up yourself, but fight deportations.“
Based on the Dublin-law, a six-person family from Chechnya is threatened to be deported to Poland. Their first deportation failed in march after the family kept resisting. The foreigners‘ office from Saalfeld intentionally sent home a traumatized woman from The Rudolstadt hospital and set under pressure the family’s lawyer. After police violence against the mother of two children led to her collapse, the deportation was interrupted. Shortly after, the threat was renewed.
The Galaeva family escaped from Chechnya to Germany eleven months ago. But the German auhtorities denied them to have an asylum process here, because following EU-legislation, Poland would be responsible for the case. The foreigners‘ office from Saalfeld announced them the deportation for march 11th. Kheda Galaeva, who came here with her mother, her sister, her brother-in-law and their two children, fears to be persecuted by Chechnians in case of being deported to Poland. She knows cases of Chechnians who have been persecuted or kidnapped in Poland. Furthermore she’s scared to be detained in a locked-up lager for refugees, as this becomes more and more popular in Poland. For these reasons, the family refuses to travel to Poland.
The foreigners‘ office from Saalfeld obviously is ready to execute the deportation, no matter what consequences it might have. While Kheda Galaeva couldn‘t be released from hosptial due to a pneumonia, the authorities had her mother released from the Rudolstadt hospital on march 10th, where she’s been sent to because of a serious traumatization. On that day, she was released without any explanation and sent to the lager in Beulwitz by taxi. In the morning of march 11th, at 6.30 am, an employee of the foreigners‘ office entered the family’s rooms accompagnied by seven policemen, where they found Kheda Galaeva’s mother, sister, the sister’s daughter and a neighbour, that has been called by the terrified sister. The officers told the family to pack their stuff and rejected any objections concerning the expected separation of the family. As the sister didn‘t obey, she was handcuffed and threatened with electro-shockers in case of furhter resistance. Following these measures, she collapsed and the present interpreter called an ambulance. The policemen follfowed the ambulance to the hospital and declared to be waiting until evening in order to execute the deportation if the sister’s situation got better. When this didn‘t happen, the members of the family who had remained in the lager were told to expect deprtation any moment from then on.
Since then, especially Kheda Galaeva’s sister and her children are retraumatized. They‘re scared to walk out on the street and fear the arrival of police every night. Kheda Galaeva comments this: „Now I understand this very well: If they try to deport someone against his will, this evoces a permanent stress inside that person. This is already a depression.“ She doesn‘t see any escape from that situation but to fight against her deportation. In Chechnya, the family fears persecution and in Poland it would be either the same or living in a prison for refugees. She got in contact with The VOICE already last year, when she participated in the protests inside the central reception camp in Eisenberg (http://thevoiceforum.org/node/3300). This year in April, Kheda Galaeva participated in a refugee meeting of The VOICE, where refugees from different camps came together to discuss possibilities of common organizing (http://thevoiceforum.org/node/3542). Kheda Galaeva calls on refugees: „Deportation is much worse for an isolated person than if we‘re many. You should‘t give up yourself, but fight deportations.“
http://breakdeportation.blogsport.de/2014/05/20/saalfeld-family-galaeva…