This morning at 12:30 in front of the Ohlauer school, right in the middle of Mimi’s memorial ceremony, the police arrested another refugee activist from the school.
Mimi, our most charismatic human rights refugee activist, Djane, Kreuzberg icon of the anti-evictions struggle, left us yesterday evening. This is a great loss for the Refugee movement, for Kreuzberg, and for all of her numerous friends. She was sick for a long time, but refused to leave the place of resistance in the heart of her „Kiez“, no doctor or nurse was allowed in to visit her. She probably didn’t take her treatment as she should have, but who knows, as no health expert can confirm this. The imprisonment of the school inhabitants, the deprivation of the basic right to receive visitors at home, denied the opening of their international social center… Isolation kills.
This morning, a memorial ceremony took place in front of the Ohlauer school, where she lived and struggled for the last 2 years. In the middle of tears, flowers and candles, the police quickly arrested another important Roofugees activist, right on the other side of the street. No one had expected such shameless, reckless harassment of the activists of the school, while mourning their lost sister.
Already yesterday, a giant police operation was executed under the pretense of a fire escape inspection: security matters. The ten police busses were only there to „protect“ the Bezirk’s handworkers. 3 activists were arrested during the raid, 2 of them are still detained, doors to private rooms were forced open, personal objects were stolen. Obviously the police were looking for some particular people, but 2 are missing from the count: Mimi and N., brutally arrested this morning.
The charges against N. echo the death of Mimi as well as the police raid of yesterday: they want to finish us. N. could be detained for a longer time and condemned with a serious penalty and further faces potential deportation.
STOP the political killing of the movement!
You can kill us, you can bruise us, arrest us, jail us.
YOU CAN’T KILL A MOVEMENT
Mimi’s spirit of freedom lives in each of us