WE WONDER WHY REFUGEES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO MOVE AROUND WITHIN GERMANY AND ARE EVEN NOT ALLOWED TO VISIT THERE FRIENDS IN OTHER REGIONS
we are calling on the responsible authority in schwabisch gmund to cancel all penalty charges against refugees in regard to Residencpflicht (right not to move)
On February 28th 2013 we went to our friends in the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Nördlingen to support them with their protests against the leaving conditions in the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft. Part of the protest was the refusal of the food packages and to protest to the public and the responsible administration to come over and listen to the refugees. During the protests the head of the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft talked to the police and pointed at the six of us refugees of the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Schwäbisch Gmünd who are also Activist of the voice and caravane for the right of refugees and migrant. She told the police that we do not live in the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft and we are even not allowed to stay there because of the Residenzpflicht law She even told them, that we are the ringleaders or motivator, which force the local refugees to protest and to boykott the food packages. Our names were registered the following morning when we were at the train station in Nördlingen.The police was obviously looking for us and finaly controlled us in the train in the usual manner of racial profiling and discrimination among other passengers in the train.
On March 5th the public administration in Augsburg sent us letters in which they told us that we are banned from the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft because of our unallowed stay over night and the disturbance of domestic peace. Which the refugees who leaved in the Lager or the public never complained about.
Since the police of Nördlingen recorded our AUSWISS, we got letters that we have to meet with the Schwäbisch Gmünd Police (25/03/2013) 10hr. for a hearing as defendants being blamed for Nötigung (compulsion) and Verstoß gegen das Versammlungsgesetz (offense against the law of assembly).
We disagree with the statements of the Heimleitung in Nördlingen and the accusation of the police. YES, we were in Nördlingen! YES, we were taking part in the protests! YES, we were supporting our friends in our common struggle. But NO, we were not the ringleaders who forced the refugees to start protest actions which they actually didn't want to start. Refugees protests have taken place in Nördlingen several times in the last years, even without solidarity from other Gemeinschaftsunterkünfte and the protests are still going on there.
The Residenzpflicht forbids a refugee to leave the Landkreis/Lager/State where his/her living situation is repression from the administrations and leads to isolation from the society. We do not accept this regulation, because it offends our civil liberties (right of abode, general right of acting/ Freizügigkeit, Allgemeine Handlungsfreiheit), the Grundrechte (especially Artikel 11 - Freizügigkeit im Bundesgebiet) The German National law (Artikle 1) which talks about human dignity and the Geneva Conventions concerning the rights of Asylum seekers.
After several postponement of the court hearing We are now calling on fellow refugees from other regions, groups, students, interested politicians, youths, press, and interested individuals to pls join us Friday 14/3/2014 time: 10:40. Venue-Amtsgericht Schwabisch Gmund as we protest against COLONIAL HERITAGE AND THE VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS IN GERMANY.
For further information contact
Facebook/ Refugees Initiative Schwäbisch Gmund