RACIST POLICE TERROR – LEGAL IMPUNITY – JURIDICAL CRIMINALIZATION
Unlawful police brutalities and connected juridical prosecutions have been accompanying our struggles for self-determination in this country ever since. This continuously repeating history has led us to realize:
there is more beyond these brutalities and repressions that kill, hurt and humiliate our brothers and sisters in the name of state and law – this is terrorism!
“Terror, is from the French terreur, from Latin terror meaning "great fear", a noun derived from the Latin verb terrere meaning "to frighten", is a policy of political repression and violence intended to subdue political opposition…The modern definition of terrorism refers to criminal or illegal acts of violence at randomly chosen targets, in an effort to raise fear…Terror on the other hand is practiced by governments and law enforcement officials, usually within the legal framework of the state…
…David Forte states that the primary difference between terror and terrorism is that while terror can be neutrally evil (i.e., random violence committed by robbers, rapists, and even military personnel), terrorism has the additional political or moral dimension, being the systematized use of randomly focused violence by organized groups against non-combatants to effect a political objective.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror)
On these grounds police terrorism at itself should be seen as enforced arm of the brutal militarization in the racist repressions of migrants to scare off the people from their self-determination and to make us venerable – vulnerable to the discrimination perpetrated on us by oppressions and injustice of the state.
We call on the refugees’ community to fight back in solidarity with those who have been hit by police brutality and are additionally casted to arbitrary prosecution in the aftermath, while on the other hand the unlawfulness of the initial police measures have been established but none of the perpetrators has been legally trialed for their approved abuses in a matter to cover up the terror.
This fight cannot be won by just achieving sole acquittals for those who have been dragged to court to criminalize their right to act in self-defense against the terror – we need to break this mentality of institutionalized brutalization, of legal impunity for the offenders and juridical criminalization of the actual victims which is an established culture of social discrimination and destruction.
If we do not want the same history of racial discrimination to be repeated endlessly in Germany, we have to break the silence about the terror of police by racially profiled abuses in juridical impunity.
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There are 2 hearings going to take place soon for that we want to raise your solidary awareness and support:
*Nigerian embassy protest appeal hearing of Mbolo Yufanyi Movuh in Berlin*
* Date: 26th of November 2014
* Time: 9 am
* District court Berlin Tiergarten, Wilsnacker Str. 4, Block 2/Room B219
*Mbolo is the only person sentenced in connection with the Nigerian embassy protest from October 15th 2012 – all other trials have been suspended!* https://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/english%20mbolo%20embassy
#Oury Jalloh memorials trial against activists of the initiative in remembrance of Oury Jalloh in Dessau#
# Date: 27th of November 2014
# Time: 10 am
# District court Dessau, Willi-Lohmann-Str. 33, Room 123
#Activists of the initiative are charged for their fight for the truth about the death of Oury Jalloh, who died in chains in a police detention cell in Dessau in 2005 – opposing the cover up mentality of police, prosecution, courts and civil society in Dessau with memorial actions in 2012 and 2013#http://initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com/)
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https://thevoiceforum.org/node/3777