2 years ago Brother Tonou Mbobda was murdered in the UKE-Hospital…
Since 2 years the UKE-Hospital has been disclaiming its responsibility for his violent death…
Since 2 years now, Hamburg’s public prosecutors have failed to adequately prosecute the obvious breaches of law, breaches of due diligence, and violations of policy….
Since 2 years now, the institution UKE-Hospital, the prosecuting authority public prosecutor’s office and the political leaders in the science committee have allied for a joint cover-up by stigmatizing, criminalizing and blaming the victim…
Since 2 years now, we as the Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense have been fighting together with the family and the Black Community Hamburg for the full and complete clarification of all circumstances that led to the violent death of Brother Tonou Mbobda… and we will not let this fight rest until the family receives the justice it deserves. The death of Brother Tonou Mbobda cannot and must not go unpunished and unpardoned!
We demand the indictment of those responsible in a due process of law to clarify all outstanding issues:
Neither the UKE-Hospital, nor the city of Hamburg have so far personally apologized to the family or expressed their regrets to the bereaved.
The killing of Black people is part of the structural DNA of Hamburg, if only because the responsible law enforcement agencies have so far systematically legitimized it instead of filing charges. The „failure to recognize“ implicitly and explicitly racist behavior not only through unjustified and excessive violence, but also through failure to care and ignoring fundamental rights is an unspeakable continuity that feeds on the unreflective colonial roots of the German dominant society. It is an expression of an inhuman superiority mentality that the recognition of equal rights to life and self-determination is and can still be so systematically denied in 2021. We will not continue to stand idly by and watch the killing of Black lives and institutional violence against Black people in impunity, but we will do everything necessary to ensure that anti-Black racism in Hamburg, in Germany and beyond finally comes to an end!
Touch One – Touch ALL
Justice for Mbobda
Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense
Contact: [email protected]
Join: [email protected]
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BLACK COMMUNITY COALITION FOR JUSTICE & SELF-DEFENSE
Hamburg, 11. August 2020
Wie wir heute Abend erfahren mussten, hat die Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg das lange verschleppte Ermittlungsverfahren wegen Körperverletzung mit Todesfolge im Fall unseres Bruders Tonou-Mbobda ohne Erhebung einer Anklage einfach eingestellt.
Es ist nun bald ein Jahr und 4 Monate her, dass Bruder Tonou Mbobda im UKE getötet wurde – einem Ort, an dem er während einer psychischen Erkrankung Zuflucht und Heilung suchte. Zum Zeitpunkt des Angriffs saß er ruhig auf einer Bank, zum Zeitpunkt des Angriffs war er weder bewaffnet noch gewalttätig. Wir glauben, dass Bruder Tonou Mbobda, wenn er weiß gewesen wäre, anders behandelt worden und heute noch am Leben sein könnte.
Wie konnte Bruder Tonou-Mbobda im UKE sterben? Wir müssen die Wahrheit erfahren.
Es ist nun bald ein Jahr und 4 Monate her und die Fragen der Familie, warum der Sohn, Bruder und Cousin William Tonou-Mbobda getötet wurde, sind immer noch unbeantwortet. Das ist ein anhaltendes Trauma. Gleichzeitig aber ist es wiederkehrende Realität tagtäglicher Erfahrung von rassistischer Brutalität und Verachtung für das Leben Schwarzer Menschen in Deutschland, dass diese immer wieder offensichtlich straffrei getötet werden dürfen. Die unfassbare Einstellung des Ermittlungsverfahrens im Angesicht der aktuellen weltweiten Massenproteste der #BlackLivesMatter-Bewegung auch hier in Deutschland und auch hier in Hamburg ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht der trauernden Familie, unserer Black Community hier in Hamburg und weltweit. Sie zeigt einmal mehr eindrücklich, wie berechtigt und notwendig diese Massenproteste sind und bleiben, weil Schwarze Leben auch hier in Deutschland weder zählen, noch einer angemessenen Strafverfolgung würdig erscheinen!
Institutioneller Rassismus und strukturelle Gewalt sind in allen öffentlichen Institutionen so tief verwurzelt, dass selbst in einem führenden Universitätskrankenhaus wie dem UKE ein Schwarzer Patient einfach so und ohne strafrechtliche Konsequenzen getötet werden darf. Wenn die Männer des Sicherheitsdienstes und das Pflegepersonal die damalige Situation im Einklang mit geltenden Richtlinien (insbesondere der S3-Richtlinie der DGPPN zur Vermeidung von Zwang) und unter vorgeschriebener ärztlicher Aufsicht behandelt hätten, wäre Bruder Tonou-Mbobda heute vielleicht noch am Leben.
Die Vertuschungen und Ausreden, die Verschleppung und anhaltende Straffreiheit im Fall Tonou-Mbobda erinnern uns an die vielen Fälle von Oury Jalloh bis Mareame N´deye Sarr in Deutschland, Adama Traoré und Wissam El Yamni in Frankreich, Rocky Bennett und Stephen Lawrence im Großbritannien und viele andere mehr. All diese schrecklichen Vorfälle sind Belege für strukturellen Rassismus und seine systematische Leugnung.
Unsere Geduld ist am Ende. Genug ist Genug!
Wir fordern Gerechtigkeit, Verantwortung und Rechenschaftspflicht in allen Belangen
Inoffizielle Entschuldigungen und geheuchelte Anteilnahme haben schon vor der unsägliche Einstellung des Ermittlungsverfahrens nicht ausgereicht. Die Institutionen müssen Verantwortung übernehmen und mit jener Last, die wir Schwarzen so lange er- und mittragen müssen, endlich angemessen umgehen. Stattdessen werden sie sich nun bestätigt fühlen in ihrer menschenverachtenden Einschätzung „Alles richtig gemacht“ zu haben, wenn sie einen Schwarzer Menschen getötet haben. Wir sind es leid, aus Menschenverachtung sterben zu müssen. Wir sind es leid, dass Strafverfolgung systematisch unterbunden wird. Wir sind es leid, dass genau dadurch nichts geändert wird. Wir sind es leid, dass Weiße Angestellte und Polizisten ungestraft töten dürfen.
Bruder Tonou-Mbobda‘s Tod darf nicht straffrei bleiben!
Sein Leben darf nicht wegen des Machtmissbrauchs einiger Verantwortlicher entwertet werden.
Wir werden uns nicht zum Schweigen bringen lassen und wir sind nicht allein. Die ganze Welt wird von diesem Fall erfahren und sehen, wie ignorant damit umgegangen wird. Wir sind solidarisch mit der Familie, die diese Folter des Wartens nun noch länger ertragen muss und wir verurteilen die Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg für die unverantwortliche Einstellung der Strafverfolgung ohne gerichtliche Beweiserhebung.
Wir fordern Gerechtigkeit!
Es ist an der Zeit, das ungestrafte Töten von Schwarzen Menschen endlich zu beenden
Es ist an der Zeit, Bruder Tonou Mbobda Gerechtigkeit widerfahren zu lassen. Ohne die Anerkennung und Einordnung der ganzen Wahrheit, kann es keine Gerechtigkeit geben!
Wir fordern die Hamburger Bürgerschaft und Zivilgesellschaft zum Handeln auf:
– Fordern Sie gemeinsam mit uns eine Anklageerhebung seitens der Staatsanwaltschaft im Fall Tonou-Mbobda ein!
– Sorgen Sie mit uns gemeinsam für die Einrichtung eines unabhängigen, von der Zivilgesellschaft getragenen Ausschusses zur Untersuchung aller Handlungen und Unterlassungen, die zum gewaltsamen Tod von Bruder Tonou-Mbobda geführt haben.
– Sorgen Sie mit uns gemeinsam für ein Verbot von potentiell tödlich endenden Zwangsfixierungen in Bauchlage in der Psychiatrie sowie in der Polizeipraxis und bei Sicherheitsdiensten.
– Sorgen Sie mit uns gemeinsam für mehr und angemessenere Schulungen zu Deeskalation und gewaltfreien Interventionen für Polizeibeamte und städtisches Sicherheitspersonal mit der gesetzlichen Berechtigung zur Anwendung von sogenanntem einfachem(!) Zwang.
Wir rufen Sie dazu auf, die wichtige Arbeit zu leisten und unseren Communities zuzuhören!
Wir rufen Sie auf, dafür Sorge zu tragen, dass der Gerechtigkeit Genüge getan wird, damit der Schutz und die Sicherheit der Menschen im Mittelpunkt stehen und rassistisches Profiling und alle Fälle rassistischer Brutalität effektiv unterbunden werden können.
Der Tod von Bruder Tonou Mbobda ist ein Symbol für ein System, das sich endlich ändern muss!
Unser tiefes Mitgefühl gilt der Familie Tonou-Mbobda. Wir stehen ihnen in ihrem Kampf für Gerechtigkeit an ihrer Seite.
Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense
Kontakt: [email protected]
Sister Oloruntoyin – mobil: +49157-85508102
Brother Mwayemudza – mobil: +49176-99621504
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DE: Warum sehen Sie eigentlich keinen Rassismus?
William Tonou-Mbobda died in the UKE after being restrained. In this interview, Black Community activists explain why they think this is institutional racism.
Interview: Félice Gritti
https://www.zeit.de/hamburg/2020-07/rassismus-psychiatrie-patient-sicherheit-hamburg/komplettansicht
More than a year ago the psychiatric patient William Tonou-Mbobda died after the security service of the UKE forcefully fixed him. The incident has not yet been legally clarified, the investigation is still ongoing. The Black Community Coalition for Justice and Self-Defense, a group of Black activists, considers the case an example of institutional racism. We spoke to Oloruntoyin Manly-Spain and Mwayemudza Ndindah about the accusations they are making – and what the case means to them personally. At their own request, the two will appear in the rest of this interview under their activist names „Sister Oloruntoyin“ and „Brother Mwayemudza“.
ZEIT ONLINE: For more than a year, you have been pushing for clarification of the death of William Tonou-Mbobda, who died at the UKE after security guards had detained him. You see racism in this case. Where, exactly?
Sister Oloruntoyin: It is important to differentiate: We mean institutional racism, not interpersonal. Institutional racism is not necessarily intentional, it has to do with bias and unconscious beliefs, but it creates structures that lead to black people being treated worse. Even in hospitals.
ZEIT ONLINE: Hospitals have not yet been at the centre of the debate on racism.
Sister Oloruntoyin: At the beginning of the 1990s, a young black man died in Broadmoor Hospital in England, after which the so-called „Blackwood Report“ was produced. This described a culture within that hospital that was based on White European norms and expectations. According to the report, this resulted in a subtle, altogether covert form of institutional racism – which was nevertheless effective and played a major role in the treatment of the patient.
ZEIT ONLINE: How do you know that the same thing happened in the case of William Tonou-Mbobda?
Sister Oloruntoyin: First of all, there has been no official apology from the UKE to the family of William Tonou-Mbobda to date. That would have been the least we could have expected, but it’s not the only point. According to the autopsy report, William Tonou-Mbobda would not have died if he had not had a heart defect. Had there been a thorough nmedicaeion on admission, the heart defect would have been discovered earlier. A heart defect is a risk factor – it should also play a role in the decision whether to order coercive measures or not. And if one orders and exercises coercion, then there are certain rules for this, such as the S3 guideline …
ZEIT ONLINE: … which recommends, among other things, that when lying on the ground. people should be restrained face up, which was obviously not the case with William Tonou-Mbobda …
Sister Oloruntoyin: … and the UKE has violated these rules in this case. We cannot and will not simply accept this.
Brother Mwayemudza Ndindah: There are more points to it. The confirmation to the request for coercive treatment was not conferred yet at the time. Self-endangerment or extraneous endangerment was neither given nor documented – we spoke to a doctor after the incident, William Tonou-Mbobda did not attack or hurt anyone according to this. The security personnel was not deployed in the presence of a doctor either. Then the public prosecutor’s office commissioned the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the UKE with the autopsy, and the director of the institute, Professor Püschel, accepted the assignment – although there was a conflict of interest. Furthermore, according to our information, William Tonou-Mbobda’s name was misspelled at the time of admission, despite his health insurance card. This later led to the fact that his sister was not allowed to provide legal guardianship for her brother.
ZEIT ONLINE: This may be a worrying accumulation of mistakes, but is it racism?
Brother Mwayemudza: These are systemic mechanisms of action that are not necessarily linked to a malicious intention of the individual. But that’s the way racism works – and that’s what we mean when we talk about institutionalized racism. These chains of error are only possible when it concerns a person of minor importance, and the blacker a person, the more likely it is to be so. The more likely it is that care and standards will be neglected.
ZEIT ONLINE: Nevertheless, many people would probably respond: All this could’ve happened to a White person.
Brother Mwayemudza: This argument only points out that there is something wrong with this coercive psychiatric system. And on the other hand, it still does not exclude the possibility that institutional racism have played a role in this particular case. There are various factors that lead to people being less careful, paying less attention, showing less empathy – institutional racism is not the only one, but it is one of these factors. The debate suffers from the fact that this kind of racism is not recognized, is denied.
Sister Oloruntoyin: But if racial prejudice against Blacks is not acknowledged, both at an individual and structural level, then it is difficult to address the inequalities that exist in the health sector, particularly in the field of mental health. There would be a need for nationwide cultural awareness programs for hospital staff, combined with anti-racism and de-escalation training. Black communities must also be involved.
ZEIT ONLINE: But again, the question: What is the basis of your conviction that in the case of William Tonou-Mbobda not only mistakes were made, but racism was at work? Do you basically assume that racism works in all institutions?
Brother Mwayemudza: Counter-question: Could you prove the absence of White superiority arrogance when – as in the present case – a series of omissions and errors have been committed against a Black patient and his family that are in conflict with medical diligence, existing guidelines and an ostensibly responsible corporate culture? Racism has a systemic effect and is based on the conviction of one’s own superiority, and possibly also one’s own infallibility – both individually and institutionally. The accumulation of errors to the detriment of one and the same patient cannot be explained without a corresponding structural background. In addition, there is the ignorant and disrespectful behavior towards the Black Family and the absolute blindness to errors after the incident, although the UKE’s actions had fatal consequences. Here, the institution UKE has acted structurally derogatory and thus racist at all levels, from the careless admission examination to the unattended, lethal use of disproportionate force to the criminalizing crisis management at the expense of the killed patient and his relatives.
Sister Oloruntoyin: If we are honest: Racism and the idea of White supremacy are the basis of all institutions of this German society. This is not only our subjective experience, but also a finding that is repeatedly made by international bodies such as the UN Working Group of Experts on the situation of People of African Descent during a visit to Germany in February 2017 or in the regular reports on Germany by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) – most recently in March 2020. When we speak of institutionalized racism, we shift the focus to how organizations work for or against ethnic minorities and how the services of these institutions are experienced by us. We are talking about systematic discrimination and structurally discriminatory practices. The most common form of „White supremacy“ is not openly fascist neo-Nazi groups, but the silent agreement of the majority society to privilege White interests.
ZEIT ONLINE: How tiring is it for you to conduct this debate?
Brother Mwayemudza: If someone can’t understand what racism feels like because he or she is not affected by racism, but then says: racism doesn’t exist – then this is an arrogance and ignorance that reinforces the already existing experience of being worth less.
ZEIT ONLINE: The other day, the Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer said that racism in the German police force only occurs in isolated cases and therefore no study is needed.
Brother Mwayemudza: Horst Seehofer also spoke of migration as the mother of all problems and of defending the German social systems against immigration down to the last bullet. In this respect, one can already see how this man is positioning himself. That is one thing – the other is structural: precisely that denial of racism, historical and contemporary, structural. Not only Mr Seehofer is involved in this, but also the Interior Ministers of the Federal States and large sections of the police force.
ZEIT ONLINE: Germany likes to take advantage of having come to terms with its past. What do you mean when you speak of historical denial?
Brother Mwayemudza: Racism was already established before German fascism. It emerged as an ideology of justification for colonialism, for colonial crimes. But this connection is still not made today: The pretense is that fascism came from Braunau, historically out of nowhere. This missing link has led to the fact that colonialism and racism have never really been dealt with in Germany. There is a lack of recognition of this heritage and of the fact that for this very reason there are significantly more female racists than male fascists.
ZEIT ONLINE: With what consequences for the present?
Brother Mwayemudza: As long as it is not recognized, nothing is done about it. Then all racist incidents end up in the individual case drawer. There is a mechanism at work here that is called cognitive dissonance in psychology – if you deny you don’t have to change. In this respect, Mr Seehofer’s statements are classic examples of how racism works: Denial is an essential part of its reproduction.
ZEIT ONLINE: What does this mean for all those affected by racism?
Brother Mwayemudza: This denial is devaluation. When you say we don’t need a study of racism, for example in the police force, you are saying: the people affected by racism are not even worthy of at least studying the phenomenon. This is then obviously a system that is politically intended: people are criminalized or even mistreated and killed because of the color of their skin, but those responsible for it have nothing to fear, let alone punishment. Instead, the police are declared victims of racism accusations – this is structural perpetrator-victim-reversion …
ZEIT ONLINE: Back to William Tonou-Mbobda: What did his death mean to you personally?
Sister Oloruntoyin: The case has shown us that as Black people we are not safe. As I stood by the bed of William Tonou-Mbobda in the intensive care unit at UKE, I thought of my younger brothers. I said to myself: That’s incredible! We Blacks know that the German institutions are racist – and yet we are always shocked by such incidents. It is painful and traumatic that this „tragic“ case, this „catastrophe“, as Katharina Fegebank called it in the Science Committee, is part of a history that repeats itself again and again.
ZEIT ONLINE: What incidents do you think of when you talk about this story?
Sister Oloruntoyin: Mareame Sarr and Christy Schwundeck were shot to death by German police officers, Oury Jalloh was burned to death in a Dessau police cell, Achidi John died in the UKE from a coercive emetic instillation into his lungs. We also think of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others in the USA. When we are struck by such racist disasters, which apparently seem quite natural to the white majority society, we are always hit very hard. It’s hard to sleep after such incidents. It’s hard to focus. It takes a while to process the shock and to calm down again.
TIME ONLINE: How do you handle it?
Sister Oloruntoyin: As the Black Community Coalition for Justice and Self-Defense, we offer psychosocial support and provide safe spaces where Black people can work through common traumas. Black people have been organizing themselves again and again, fighting racism for more than 500 years. However, overcoming systemic racism is ultimately the task of the White majority society, including its authorities and institutions.
ZEIT ONLINE: And how, in your view, can such an overcoming be achieved?
Sister Oloruntoyin: In any case, not without consistent criminal prosecution within reasonable time frames. It is crippling to have to wait again and again for impunity, for the next miscarriage of justice. Because the case of William Tonou-Mbobda has shown us this too so far: no one is held actually responsible when institutional action has fatal consequences.
ZEIT ONLINE: The prosecution would argue the investigation is ongoing.
Sister Oloruntoyin: For more than a year now?! It’s hard for us to understand why it takes so long to press charges in a case that took place in broad daylight in front of numerous witnesses. And if it takes that long, we would at least expect some reasonable explanation.
Brother Mwayemudza: It is well known that the main investigations were already completed last fall. Still no charges have been brought up so far. For us, this again shows which perspectives are apparently not important at all: the perspective of William Tonou-Mbobda’s family, the perspective of the people affected.
ZEIT ONLINE: Do you feel that you are heard in the public debate surrounding the case?
Brother Mwayemudza: Black voices have been heard, but this is mainly because from the beginning we have taken up this case, made it public and scandalized it. We were not surprised by the vehemence of the defensive reactions. We used the nasty R-word, called Racism. That was it: a naming, not just an accusation. Yet one is systematically pushed into the irrational corner.
ZEIT ONLINE: Do you mean that you are not taken seriously?
Brother Mwayemudza: What the UKE says, what the public prosecutor’s office says is left unquestioned. That is official authority – no interpretation. What we say as affected persons, is permanently being questioned: Where do you get off saying that? Why do you assume racism at work? Conversely, other questions would be justified and even more purposeful: How could it have come about in the first place? And: Why you cannot see racism at all?
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BLACK COMMUNITY COALITION FOR JUSTICE & SELF-DEFENSE
Hamburg, den 21. April 2020
Wir, die Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense gedenken an diesem 21. April 2020 unserem Bruder William Tonou-Mbobda, der vor genau einem Jahr durch eine brutale Zwangsfixierung durch 3 Mitarbeiter des Sicherheitsdienstes KLE am UKE Hamburg ohne richterliche Anordnung gewaltsam aus seinem noch jungen Leben gerissen wurde. Unsere Gedanken sind am heutigen Tag besonders mit den trauernden Angehörigen und Freunden, die bis heute weder eine Entschuldigung, noch eine nachvollziehbare Aufklärung erfahren durften.
Wir erneuern heute nochmals das Versprechen der Black Community Hamburg an die Familie des Ermordeten, dass wir alles in unserer Macht stehende tun werden, um das Verbrechen restlos aufzuklären und Gerechtigkeit herzustellen.
Da von der Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg bis heute keine Anklage erhoben wurde, ist der aktuelle Stand der Strafverfolgung weder für die Familie, noch für die Öffentlichkeit nachvollziehbar.
Daher klagen wir an seinem ersten Todestag die folgenden Personen, Institutionen und Zustände ersatzweise zivilgesellschaftlich an:
Unsere Forderungen zum ersten Todestag von Bruder Tonou-Mbobda:
Wir fordern das UKE auf, sich bei den Hinterbliebenen in angemessener und persönlicher Art und Weise für den Tod von William Tonou-Mbobda zu entschuldigen und die entstandenen Kosten für Überführung und Beerdigung des Leichnams zu erstatten.
Wir fordern die Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg auf, die Anklage nun ohne weiteren Zeitverzug einzureichen bzw. zuverlässig zu erklären, wann eine solche Anklageerhebung stattfinden wird.
Wir fordern Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft auf, am heutigen Tag gemeinsam mit uns unserem Bruder William Tonou-Mbobda und seiner Familie zu gedenken. Wir fordern Euch auf, die Familie in ihrem Kampf für Aufklärung und Gerechtigkeit mit allen Kräften zu unterstützen und diesen Fall über die Grenzen von Deutschland hinaus insbesondere in Afrika bekannt zu machen.
Wir fordern die solidarische Zivilgesellschaft in Hamburg und ganz Deutschland auf, die Kämpfe der Black Communities in Deutschland für die Aufklärung von institutionalisierten Morden an Schwarzen und anderweitig rassifizierten Menschen anzuerkennen und zu unterstützen. Es ist Aufgabe der deutschen Mehrheitsgesellschaft den in ihr, ihren Behörden und Institutionen systemisch wirkenden Rassismus etwa durch Racial Profiling, Sondergesetze und Leistungseinschränkungen für Asylbewerber*innen oder vorurteilsbasierte Rechtsprechungen wirksam zu beenden.
Der gewaltsame Tod von Tonou-Mbobda ist kein Einzelfall!
Dass immer wieder Schwarze Menschen in der Verantwortung oder aufgrund von Verantwortungslosigkeit deutscher Institutionen und Behörden sterben müssen oder schwer verletzt und benachteiligt werden, ist leider bittere Erfahrung unserer Community auch hier in Hamburg seit vielen Jahren:
2001 verstarb Achidi John am Institut für Rechtsmedizin des UKE – er wurde durch das gewaltsame Einfüllen von Brechmittel durch Frau Prof. Dr. Ute Lockemann getötet…
2014 starb Francis Kwame auf den Straßen Hamburgs, nachdem er den Libyenkrieg 2011, die Flucht über das Mittelmeer und die Hoffnungslosigkeit von Italien überlebt hatte…
2016 starb Yaya Jabbi im Justizvollzug Hahnöversand in Hamburg. Die Gefängnisleitung teilte mit, dass sich Yaya selbst durch Erhängen in der Zelle getötet haben soll, obwohl es noch kurz vorher keinerlei Anzeichen dafür gab…
2017 wird der Ghanaer Obang A.A. von einem Zivilpolizisten angeschossen und und dann bis zum Eintreffen des Krankenwagens nach 15min+ später ohne jede Hilfeleistung einfach liegengelassen…
2019 stirbt William Tonou-Mbobda aufgrund einer rechtswidrigen, regelwidrigen und unangemessenen Zwangsfixierung vor der Psychiatrie am UKE…
…und für keinen dieser Toten oder Verletzten wurde bisher irgendjemand zur Verantwortung gezogen!
Touch ONE – Touch ALL
#JusticeForMbobda
Stop Killing Black People!
Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense
Kontakt: Sister Oloruntoyin (+49157-85508102) und Brother Mwayemudza (+49176-99621504)
Unterzeichner*innen:
Black Community Hamburg
African Communities Organizers
AKONDA eine Welt Cafe
Alafia – Africa Festival Hamburg
ARCA – Afrikanisches Bildungszentrum e.V.
ARRiVATi Hamburg
Asuiha / African Survival in Hamburg
Black History Month Hamburg
Black Media Group Germany
CECAM HH e.V. – Civil Engagement of Cameroonians in Hamburg
Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh
Initiative in Gedenken an Yaya Jabbi
ISD Hamburg – Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland
Lampedusa in Hamburg
Refugees4Refugees
Sisters in Struggle
The VOICE Refugee Forum
Tschoobé For Freedom Germany
#Justice4Mbobda
First anniversary of the death of Brother William Tonou-Mbobda – We charge!
Hamburg, 21 April 2020
We, the Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense, commemorate on this 21st of April 2020 our brother William Tonou-Mbobda, who was torn out of his young life by a brutal forced fixation by 3 employees of the security service KLE at the UKE Hamburg without a court order exactly one year ago. Our thoughts today are especially with the grieving relatives and friends, who until today have not been able to receive an apology or a comprehensible explanation.
Today we once again renew the promise of the Black Community Hamburg to the family of our murdered brother that we will do everything in our power to completely clear up the crime and bring justice.
Since the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office has not yet brought charges, the current status of the criminal prosecution is not comprehensible either to the family or to the public.
Therefore, on the first anniversary of his death, we hereby declare a substitute civil indictment of the following persons, institutions and conditions:
Our demands on the first anniversary of the death of Brother Tonou-Mbobda:
We request the UKE to apologize to the bereaved in an appropriate and personal manner for the death of William Tonou-Mbobda and to reimburse the costs incurred for the transfer and burial of the body.
We call on the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office to now file the indictment without further delay or to reliably state when such an indictment will take place.
We call on people of African origin to join us today in commemorating our brother William Tonou-Mbobda and his family. We ask you to support the family in their fight for enlightenment and justice with all your strength and to make this case known beyond the borders of Germany, especially in Africa.
We call upon the solidary civil society in Hamburg and throughout Germany to recognize and support the struggles of the Black Communities in Germany for the elucidation of institutionalized murders of blacks and other racialized people. It is the task of the German majority society to effectively put an end to the racism systemically active in it, its authorities and institutions, for example through racial profiling, special laws and restrictions on benefits for asylum seekers* or prejudicial legal decisions.
The violent death of Tonou-Mbobda is not an isolated incident!
The fact that time and again black people have to die in the responsibility or because of the irresponsibility of German institutions and authorities, or are severely injured and disadvantaged, is unfortunately a bitter experience of our community here in Hamburg for many years:
In 2001 Achidi John died at the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the UKE – he was killed by Prof. Dr. Ute Lockemann by forceful administration of an emetic…
In 2014 Francis Kwame died on the streets of Hamburg after surviving the Libyan war in 2011, the flight across the Mediterranean and the hopelessness of Italy…
Yaya Jabbi died in 2016 in the Hahnöversand prison in Hamburg. The prison authorities announced that Yaya killed himself by hanging himself in his cell, although there were no signs of this shortly before…
In 2017 the Ghanaian Obang A.A. is shot by a civilian policeman and then simply left without any help until the ambulance arrives only after 15min+ later…
In 2019 William Tonou-Mbobda dies due to an illegal, irregular and inappropriate coercive fixation in front of the psychiatric ward at UKE…
…and no one has yet been held accountable for any of these deaths or injuries!
Touch ONE – Touch ALL
#JusticeForMbobda
Stop Killing Black People!
Black Community Coalition for Justice & Self-Defense
Contact: Sister Oloruntoyin (+49157-85508102) and Brother Mwayemudza (+49176-99621504)
Signatories*:
Black Community Hamburg
African Communities Organizer
AKONDA – One World Cafe
Alafia – Africa Festival Hamburg
ARCA – African Education Centre e.V.
ARRiVATi Hamburg
Asuiha / African Survival in Hamburg
Black History Month Hamburg
Black Media Group Germany
CECAM HH e.V. – Civil Engagement of Cameroonians in Hamburg
Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh
Initiative in Remembrance of Yaya Jabbi
ISD Hamburg – Initiative Black People in Germany
Lampedusa in Hamburg
Refugees4Refugees
Sisters in Struggle
The VOICE Refugee Forum
Tschoobé For Freedom Germany
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