“Tatort” check: How much Oury Jalloh is in Hawk case? – MIRROR ONLINE

An African refugee is on arms and legs tied in the cell of a police station. The man burns – and of the watchkeeping officers nobody wants to be responsible for it. There are disturbing investigation for “Tatort” commissars Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) and Katharina Lorenz (Petra Schmidt-Schaller) at their last common case.

produced by NDR episode “Burnt” is based on the case of Oury Jalloh. The asylum seeker from Sierra Leone burnt on 7 January 2005 in Dessau – while in police custody. Unlike the presentation of the movie does not play in Saxony-Anhalt, but in Lower Saxony Salzgitter. This already shows that it is not a documentary thriller. But what facts have adopted the “crime scene” from the creators? A reality check.

What parallels there

The circumstances of death are mapped quite accurately in the film: Oury Jalloh was also locked in a cell in the basement of the police station, in which there is no furniture was, but only a tiled, heated concrete block, on which lay a mattress. Jalloh was also fixed on her back with handcuffs and shackles on four brackets.

Can the bound man who so ever put the flame-retardant coating of the mattress on fire? With an overlooked during its raid lighter? These questions have been raised in the case of Jalloh. The television Commissioner has the same doubts. And like in the movie, the duty officer ignored initially the fire alarm from the cell and reacted too slowly.

The district manager in “Tatort” and his officials persistently silent. In the case of Oury Jalloh, a judge in 2008 angered that: The court did not have the chance, “what is called a due process to carry out.” Police had testified as witnesses “without hesitation and grotto stupid” incorrect and incomplete.

Is such behavior a particular case?

When police break the law, they often seem to deny statements and cover each other. This is the result Tobias Singelnstein, professor of criminal law at the Free University of Berlin, according to the research center “corrective”

Rafael Behr, professor at the Police Academy in Hamburg, criticized:. Unconditional solidarity is the lubricant of a functioning police camaraderie. “Every policeman comes once in the situation, to provide reasons for ads then the law applies:.. We stick together”

Are there differences between crime and real case

The most obvious difference: In the film, the perpetrator is found within a few days. But the question of why Oury Jalloh died is not answered even more than ten years after his death. The district court sentenced the former Magdeburg service group head of the police manslaughter to a fine of 10,800 euros – due to shortcomings in its monitoring obligations. The Federal Court dismissed all appeals against the judgment in 2014 back.

In November 2013, the initiative “Break The Silence”, an association of supporters Jalloh, a private fire reports had imagined. This suspicion has been suggested by an unknown gunman had gained access to the cell, and there set fire to the mattress. The end of October will present new findings the initiative.

“Tatort” the plot has been adapted in many other points in order to link the two commissioners. For example, ran the arrest in Oury Jalloh completely different. He was under surveillance by the police not because he acted with alleged forged passports. The 36-year-old was taken into custody after two cleaning staff felt harassed in a Dessauer Park of the heavily drunken man.

fiction is thus the fight scene from Commissioner Falcon, in which he repeatedly brutally beats the fallen refugee. The bad conscience after this outburst it is that brings him to take over the investigation -. Even though he as a federal police officer is not responsible

normally Who determined in such cases, ?

Some states have departments for internal investigations established that are active on the suspicion of offenses of colleagues. Often officials of other departments take over this investigation, approximately from a neighboring county. This is to a certain degree of objectivity be maintained.

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