kein mensch ist illegal hamburg

"Ihr sollt wissen, daß kein Mensch illegal ist.
Das ist ein Widerspruch in sich. Menschen können schön sein oder noch schöner. Sie können gerecht sein oder ungerecht. Aber illegal? Wie kann ein Mensch illegal sein?"

Elie Wiesel

Freitag, 27. Juni 2014

Time to end the EU’s left-to-die policy

http://opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/charles-heller-lorenzo-pezzani/time-to-end-eu’s-lefttodie-policy

CHARLES HELLER and LORENZO PEZZANI 25 June 2014

Two years ago, we published a report on what came to be known as the “left-to-die” boat case. Co-authored with the architectural office SITU Studio, the report used imaging, mapping, and modelling technologies in order to produce a visual and spatial picture of how, in March 2011, sixty-three migrants lost their lives in the Central Mediterranean while attempting to reach the small Italian island of Lampedusa from the coast of Libya.
The passengers of the “left-to-die” boat were amongst the over 27,000 people who fled Libya towards European shores (over 1,000,000 people fled to neighbouring countries in North Africa) after the beginning of the uprising against Gaddafi and the following international military intervention. These crossings occurred in particularly precarious conditions – with the Gaddafi regime playing an active role in forcing migrants onto boats without regard for even the minimal safety measures. As a result, over 1.500 deaths were recorded among them, one of the all-time highs. These deaths however occurred at a time when the militarization and surveillance of the EU’s maritime frontier was at its apex. The usual assets of national border police from both sides of the Mediterranean, were reinforced by over forty military ships and many patrol aircrafts deployed by western states off the Libyan coast in support of the NATO-led international military intervention. This placed these deaths squarely in the most highly surveyed waters in the entire world, and there were strong indications that military forces were failing in their obligation to rescue migrants in distress, despite possessing the requisite means of surveillance to witness their plight.
The initial testimonies of the nine survivors of the “left-to-die” boat case provided a devastating indictment of this deadly inaction: they claimed that they were left to drift for 14 days in the area monitored by NATO, despite sending a distress call as well as encountering at least one military helicopter and a military ship. With the aim of identifying direct responsibility for these deaths, a loosely associated network of journalists, NGOs and institutions such as the Council of Europe launched parallel investigations on the case.
In support of this endeavour, our report corroborated the survivors testimonies with a wide range of digital mapping and remote sensing technologies – from drift modelling to determine the trajectory of the drifting migrants’ boat to satellite radar imagery to detect military vessels in proximity.
As narrated in the video animation that we release today, by using surveillance technologies against the grain, we were able to read the traces left on the surface of the sea. Turning the ocean itself into a witness for interrogation, we reconstructed and mapped as accurately as possible what happened to this vessel.
Liquid Traces: The Left-to-Die Boat Case, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, 17 min, 2014. Animation produced for the exhibition “Forensis”,
While none of the parallel investigations on this case was able to determine the identity of the helicopter and vessels that entered into direct contact with the migrants in distress, they all concurred that the account of the survivors was highly accurate. In our report, we established with certainty that the Italian and Maltese Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres, as well as NATO command, were informed of the location and distress of the migrants, and that there were several naval assets in the vicinity of the boat that had the ability to detect and assist it, but that none of these actors intervened in a way that could have averted the 63 deaths. The collective failure to assist the passengers amounted to murdering them without touching their bodies, turning the winds and currents into a deadly weapon.
On the basis of our report and the other investigations, a coalition of NGOs has filed legal cases against several of the states participating in the military operations in Libya, including Italy, France, Spain and Belgium, and submitted Freedom of Information requests in Canada, the US, and the UK. The Dutch Senator Tineke Strik also sent, on behalf of the Council of Europe, official demands to all actors involved to ask for further details about their (in)actions.
In the process, no element either of our or the other reconstructions has been disproved. No public statement, no journalistic investigation, no legal inquiry has even tried to challenge the facts as we have reconstructed them. On the contrary, a French judge reviewing the case lauded the, “exhaustive investigations by prestigious international bodies”, before using the rigour of our inquiry to justify her refusal to investigate the case any further, claiming, on the unique basis of the (non)answer by the French military (i.e., the accused), that French assets were not deployed in the area.
This pattern has repeated itself in all the different procedures. As Strik summarizes in her recent follow up report:
“I received denials, referrals back to NATO and/or the member states, or, in some cases, no answer at all. (…) Legal cases and Freedom of Information applications are being pursued in a number of the member states implicated but seemingly in vain.”
In tortuous diplomatic non-answers (of which the correspondence contained in Strik’s follow up report provides a striking example), NATO and participating states have failed to provide exhaustive answers to simple questions such as the location of their assets during the time of the events (which are certainly meticulously recorded in their assets’ log books) or justify their (non) response to the distress call. Neither have they sought to disprove the allegation of the survivors that they were visited twice by a military helicopter and encountered a large military ship. It is as if the huge military surveillance apparatus that refused to see and react to the slow death of the 63 passengers over a period of 15 days had now itself become invisible to public scrutiny. While fully visible to the public, the collective crime of which the passengers have been the victims has remained invisible to the law. 
In the production of report, satellite imagery was crucial in confirming the presence of a high number of ships in close proximity of the drifting migrants’ boat. Pictured here Envisat-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite image for 29 March 2011 with corresponding table of returns documenting estimated length of vessel and confidence. Analysis by Lawrence Fox III, Humboldt State University Emeritus Professor of Remote Sensing, for the Forensic Oceanography report. See larger version.
As a result of the lack of response and legal inquiry, not a single actor has been made responsible for the deaths of the 63 passengers. The indifference which led to their being abandoned to the winds and currents, continues to plague the demand for justice of the survivors, perpetuating their drift even on firm land. Such a continued impunity sends out the message to all actors operating at sea that migrants can be abandoned to their deaths with no consequence. And in effect, similar incidents have repeated this since. 

The mechanism of death by policy: illegalisation, militarisation and non-assistance 

Deaths at the Borders of Europe. Source: Migreurop, Atlas of Migration in Europe: A Critical Geography of Migration Policies (London: New Interna- tionalist Publications, 2013). See larger version.
In her June 2014 follow-up report, Strik notes importantly that several recent incidents – including two of them that occurred near Lampedusa on October 3and 11, causing the death of more than 550 people - demonstrate not only that justice has not been dellivered to the survivors of the left-to-die boat case, but that no lessons have been learned from it. The October 11, 2013 shipwreck, which we have jointly documented with the WatchTheMed network, effectively seems in many ways the tragic repetition of the left-to-die case: a boat carrying more than 400 people started taking in water after it was shot by a Libyan vessel. Despite the Italian and Maltese coast guard being warned of the imminent distress of the passengers, rescue was delayed for over 5 hours and patrol vessels arrived only 1h after the boat had sunk and more than 200 people had died.
If this is the last case of migrants’ death being caused by the failure to assist them when in distress, several other incidents related to different causes have continued to prolong the list of close to 15.000 documented deaths at the EU’s maritime borders over the last 20 years. As the very periodiziation of these deaths makes evident – the count starts at the end of the 80s, when visa restrictions were imposed by EU states towards the non-Europeans and the first bodies of migrants washed away on European shores – these are less “tragedies” than deaths by policy, produced by the combined mechanisms of illegalisation, militarisation and refusal to assist.
The initial denial of visas to access the EU’s territory produces ripple effects throughout global space, with bordering practices enforced by or on behalf of the EU extending ever further within and without EU territory, thereby precaritizing non-European migrants’ entire trajectory. As they arrive on the southern Mediterranean shore, they are forced to resort to dangerous means of crossing and rely on smuggling networks, which usually provide boats in poor condition, overload them to maximize their profit, and offer only minimal - if any - security measures. While one should not deny the responsibility of smugglers and authorities that allow them to operate - without the EU’s policy of illegalisation, migrants would not resort to them.
Secondly, in order to detect and intercept illegalized migrants, border patrols and surveillance means were deployed by EU member states. Frontex (the European border agency), as well as states located on the southern shore of the Mediterranean were put under pressure by the EU, thus effectively turning the Mediterranean into a vast frontier zone. This militarization on the one hand leads to repeated acts of direct physical violence by border guards – such as shootings, collisions, and punctured boats, but also push-backs - which are not only illegal according to international law but may involve the use of violence as has recently been the case in Greece recently. But the most deadly effect of militarisation is less direct. In the attempt to evade border guards and avoid being intercepted, deported and violated, migrants use longer and more perilous routes, which cost more lives. Over the last 20 years, the militarisation of the EU’s maritime frontier has thus not succeeded in stopping illegalised crossings, but has caused the splintering of trajectories to more dangerous routes.
Finally, as a consequence of the very precarious condition that migrants are forced to resort to, they regularly encounter situations of distress – with failing motors, water entering the boat or loss of direction - and call on the rescue agencies operating in the area or the many vessels transiting in the Mediterranean for help. Nevertheless, because rescuing migrants at sea entails taking responsibility for the processing of the asylum requests or for their deportation, coastal states have grown increasingly reluctant to assist migrants in distress. While international conventions on the Laws of the Sea have sought to ensure the responsibility to rescue passengers in distress regardless of nationality or status, coastal states use overlapping Search and Rescue areas, conflicting conventions and differing interpretation of international law to evade their responsibility.
Furthermore, the criminalisation of assistance by states – fisherman for example have been put on trial for “assisting clandestine migration” after rescuing migrants – has also been a disincentive for seafarers to comply with their obligation to provide assistance. Here too then, while one should in no way diminish the responsibility of specific actors for practices of non-assistance – fishermen, commercial ships, or, as we have seen in the left-to-die boat case, the military and coast guard itself - it is clear that their behaviour is framed by the EU’s migration policy of generalised reluctance to accept non-European migrants and refugees on its territory. As such, cases of non-assistance are not “accidents” or simply the product of malevolent actors, but rather occur on a structural basis.
Governed by a partial and deterritorialised sovereignty regime which enables EU states and agencies to selectively expand their elastic bordering practices or retract from their responsibility to assist passengers in distress, the Mediterranean Sea has thus become a space of deeply hierarchised and segmented mobility: speedy and secure for certain goods and privileged passengers, slow and deadly for the unwanted. This regime produces deaths on a large scale far from any civilian gaze. This loss of life    remains largely unaccounted for and – with most bodies remaining unidentified in their liquid grave – unmournable.

Post October 3: intensified militarisation under a humantitarian varnish

The public outcry that followed the death of more than 550 people in two successive shipwrecks in early October 2013 seemed, for a fleeting moment, to indicate that suddenly a realisation of the deadly effects of the EU’s migration policy was emerging, and that a window of opportunity to rethink another policy had been opened at the cost of these lives.
However, instead of questioning the very migration policies which had produced those and the previous deaths, the EU took what it called a “tragedy” as an opportunity to increase surveillance and militarisation, albeit under a humanitarian varnish: North African states were urged once again to prevent migrants from leaving their shores; Frontex, the European border agency, was called upon to extend its operations to the whole Mediterranean and received extra funding to this effect; a new surveillance tool which had long been in development - Eurosur, the European Border Surveillance System  – was launched with the claim that it would help prevent deaths; finally, a large scale operation – Mare Nostrum – , defined by the Italian Ministry of Defence as a “humanitarian operation, […] as well as a security one”, was launched by the Italian government. However, the claims of these “new” initiatives to save lives are dubious at best and rather show how humanitarian arguments have themselves been enlisted within the same logic of closure and militarisation that, as we have argued, is the root cause of death and violence at the border.
The claim of the proponents of Eurosur that while current surveillance technologies have difficulty detecting small boats used by migrants, Eurosur will be able to do so through cutting-edge remote sensing technologies – such as drones, radars, and satellites – does not withstand the test. On the one hand, the cases of the left-to-die boat and of the 11 October 2013 blatantly demonstrate that it is not enough to detect boats in distress to save lives. On the contrary, migrants are regularly abandoned in all knowledge of their fate. Furthermore, although Eurosur was launched in December 2013, concurring with many critical assessments including our own, Frontex has recently admitted that Eurosur does not have the capacity to date to detect migrants’ numerous small boats in such as vast maritime area.
As for the operation Mare Nostrum, it has not been able to put an end to deaths at sea, despite the deployment of 6 Navy ships as well as several aerial assets, including unmanned drones. Since the start of the operation, the number of crossings have intensified. While over 50.000 people have been saved since the beginning of the year, (among which are many Syrians families fleeing the civil war) several shipwrecks happened in the last weekscosting the lives of tens of people have shown once again that no surveillance apparatus will ever be able to avoid these deaths. Instead, what Mare Nostrum has achieved, has been to transform rescue at sea into border enforcement operations that expedite deportation of certain migrants, while slowing down the mobility of others who are stranded in the camps of southern Italy with no further assistance.
As such, we see that the new operational measures implemented by the EU in the aftermath of the October 2013 “tragedies” are far from offering an alternative the continuing deaths of migrants at sea, and rather represent a continuation of the very practices that have caused them in the first place.
On the policy level, the response so far leaves little more hope. A“Mediterranean Task Force” was created by the EU Commission, which made a number of proposals to the December 2013 EU Council meeting. These were already mostly geared towards strengthening border controls, but the little humanitarian provisions they contained – such as increasing resettlement of refugees and opening further possibilities for asylum applications to EU member states from outside the EU - were thrown out by the Council in December and would in any case have been insufficient to put an end to the death of migrants at sea. Neither further strengthening border controls, nor even the desirable guarantee of further compliance with human rights will bring the death of migrants to an end, for these deaths have, as their root cause, the denial of legal access to non-European migrants. Short of lifting this ban, these deaths will continue. 

Challenging the closure of borders

In the month prior to the EU Council’s meeting of the 26-27 June which will address long term European migration policy groups of activists have been performing collective acts of transgression of the EU borders. A transnationalRefugee March, composed to a large extent by asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants has been travelling from Strasbourg to Brussels, ignoring the restrictions on movements imposed on them, to demand an end to the policies of border closure. It has been joined by caravans of migrants and activists from Italy who, on board of a no border train have been following the routes that migrants rescued in the Mediterranean are usually forced to take in hiding on their way to other European countries. European nationals, migrants, refugees have challenged together the rhetoric of Europe as a space of “free circulation” and questioned their very division into different categories of people, some of which can move, some who cannot. They demand not only freedom but also equality of movement.
In performing collectively and publicly the transgression of the EU’s internal borders, they also echo the every-day clandestine crossings of all the other extended external borders of the EU – which, in practice, extend from the Sahara to the Mediterranean, passing by the fences of Ceuta and Melilla. Together, they remind us that human beings are essentially free in their spatial mobility, which persists independently of any attempt to govern them.
Despite this daily reality of movement across borders, demands for freedom of movement and the right to a safe, legal access to European territory have often been portrayed as a distant, unrealistic utopia imagined by a handful of dreamers. But don’t more than 20 years of continued illegalised migration and deaths at the EU’s borders amply demonstrate that what is utterly unrealistic is in fact the banning of non-EU migrants and the attempt to stem their mobility? The reality is that the number of deaths at the borders of Europe has augmented under the effects of militarization and will continue to rise short of anything less than a radical opening of our political imagination towards freedom of movement.
The actual movement of migrants point towards such a horizon, as do the collective demands of migrants’ rights organisations recently expressed in theLampedusa Charter or through the joint call of the Migreurop network. Scholars have also explored what the recognition of a Right to Mobility might entail.
Certainly, a first incentive for such a reorientation to take place would be to make EU states and policymakers accountable for their (in)actions and the consequences of their practices that produce deaths on a large scale. Rather than an exceptional event, the story of the “left-to-die” boat narrated in our video is just one of the many examples of deaths by policy. This is why, beyond individual responsibilities, bringing justice to the passengers of the “left-to-die” boat would be a modest but fundamental step towards another Europe.
About the authors
Lorenzo Pezzani is a Research Fellow of the ERC funded Forensic Architecture research project at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Charles Heller is a Research Fellow of the ERC funded Forensic Architecture research project at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Freitag, 20. Juni 2014

Unterschreiben und weiterleiten


MANIFEST FÜR LAMPEDUSA IN HAMBURG -MANIFESTE POUR LAMPEDUSA À HAMBOURG |  www.manifest-fuer-lampedusa-hh.de/ | Mail: lampedusa-hh-manifest@gmx.de |

Es muss sich etwas ändern an der Haltung des Hamburger Senats: Mit einem gemeinsam unterzeichneten Manifest stellen sich erneut und über die Stadtgrenzen hinaus Personen und Institutionen an die Seite der afrikanischen Flüchtlinge, die in Libyen gearbeitet haben, 2011 vor dem Krieg über das Mittelmeer nach Lampedusa geflüchtet sind und hier seit über einem Jahr für ihre Rechte kämpfen: "Wir unterstützen den Kampf dieser Gruppe, aus den unter-schiedlichsten Gründen. Die einen sind aus christlicher Nächstenliebe dabei, andere aus humanitären oder politischen Gründen, manche sind als Nachbarin oder Nachbar dazu gekommen, andere von uns vertreten soziale, kulturelle oder politische Institutionen. Was uns eint, ist die Überzeugung, dass diese Menschen eine Zukunft haben müssen – und zwar hier, in dieser Stadt (...)."

Montag, 16. Juni 2014

Demonstration 5. Juli 2014: Anerkennung der Gruppe ‚Lampedusa in Hamburg’ – jetzt!

Über 1 Jahr Kampf sind genug – wir wollen ‚Lampedusa in Hamburg’ als Freund_innen, Kolleg_innen, Kommiliton_innen, Nachbar_innen!!

Demonstration 5. Juli 2014 – 12.00 Hachmannplatz, HH-Hauptbahnhof zum Lampedusa in Hamburg-Haus

Anerkennung der Gruppe ‚Lampedusa in Hamburg’ – jetzt!
Sofortige Arbeitserlaubnis – Bleiberecht z.B. nach §23

Dafür kämpft die Gruppe ‚Lampedusa in Hamburg’ seit über 1 Jahr mit unzähligen Veranstaltungen, Besuchen von Schulen, Universitäten, Nachbarschaftsversammlungen, Kirchen, mit Demonstrationen und anderen Aktionen, zuletzt mit einem Sitzstreik auf dem Rathausmarkt, bei dem durch brutale Polizeiangriffe 5 Menschen verletzt und 7 festgenommen wurden. Dafür haben wir zusammen am 1. Mai in der DGB-Demo und in einer Parade demonstriert, nach der eine ehemalige Schule in der Laeiszstraße zum Refugee Welcome Center erklärt wurde, dem Lampedusa in Hamburg Haus.

Deklaration der Gruppe Lampedusa in Hamburg, 6/2014
LAMPEDUSA IN HAMBURG HAUS
>  Wir, Lampedusa in Hamburg, wollen das Haus zu einem historischen Ort machen.
> Wir begreifen das Haus als Symbol für uns Nato-Kriegsflüchtlinge.
>  Wir wollen das Haus nutzen, um unsere professionellen und kreativen Fähigkeiten umzusetzen.
>  Wir wollen das Haus als Schule nutzen, z.B. um die deutsche Sprache zu lernen.
>  Das Haus bedeutet für uns die Wahrung unserer grundlegenden Rechte - wir haben es satt auf der Straße zu leben.
>  Wir brauchen das Haus, um unsere Würde zu schützen.
>  Wir brauchen das Haus, um als Familie zusammen zu bleiben.
>  Wir brauchen das Haus, um unseren legitimen politischen Kampf weiter zu führen.

Heute, nach Auslaufen der Winternotprogramme, stehen viele Mitglieder der Gruppe ‚Lampedusa in Hamburg’ wieder auf der Straße dieser Stadt, zu der sie seit über 1 Jahr gehören. Sie haben in verschiedenen Berufen in Libyen gearbeitet, für ihre Familien in ihren Herkunftsländern gesorgt, mussten vor den NATO-Bomben fliehen und fanden nach der gefährlichen Flucht über das Mittelmeer in Italien keine Möglichkeit sich eine Existenz aufzubauen. Sie wollen in Hamburg leben und wir wollen sie hier. Sie sind Teil unseres Lebens geworden, sie und wir brauchen dieses Haus. Wir, Freund_innen, Nachbar_innen, Kolleg_innen, Kommiliton_innen, Unterstützer_innen, Fans werden wieder und wieder und wieder demonstrieren, bis der Hamburger Senat dies anerkennt.

Hamburg, 13. Juni 2014 / Supportertreffen ‚Lampedusa in HH’

Lampedusa in Hamburg – they are here to stay!

Sofortige Anerkennung der von Italien ausgestellten Aufenthalts- und Arbeitserlaubnisse!

Sonntag, 15. Juni 2014

MANIFEST FÜR LAMPEDUSA IN HAMBURG |

Es muss sich etwas ändern an der Haltung des Hamburger Senats: Mit einem gemeinsam unterzeichneten Manifest stellen sich erneut und über die Stadtgrenzen hinaus Personen und Institutionen an die Seite der afrikanischen Flüchtlinge, die in Libyen gearbeitet haben, 2011 vor dem Krieg über das Mittelmeer nach Lampedusa geflüchtet sind und hier seit über einem Jahr für ihre Rechte kämpfen: "Wir unterstützen den Kampf dieser Gruppe, aus den unter-schiedlichsten Gründen. Die einen sind aus christlicher Nächstenliebe dabei, andere aus humanitären oder politischen Gründen, manche sind als Nachbarin oder Nachbar dazu gekommen, andere von uns vertreten soziale, kulturelle oder politische Institutionen. Was uns eint, ist die Überzeugung, dass diese Menschen eine Zukunft haben müssen – und zwar hier, in dieser Stadt (...)."
Einladung zur PRESSEKONFERENZ
am Montag, d. 16. Juni 2014 um 12 Uhr
beim Infozelt der Gruppe Lampedusa in Hamburg (beim Hauptbahnhof, Steindamm/ Steintorplatz)
HIER EINE ZUKUNFT! MANIFEST FÜR LAMPEDUSA IN HAMBURG  
mit den Erstunterzeichnenden  
Amelie Deuflhard, Intendantin Kampnagel, Bela B., Musiker      und anderen
sowie mit
Christoph Twickel, Siri Keil und Tanja van de Loo als Vertreter_innen der Manifest-Impulsgruppe 
und
Asuquo Udo und Ali Ahmad, Sprecher der Gruppe Lampedusa in Hamburg.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Weitere Erstunterzeichnende sind Roger Willemsen, Karin Beier, Dr. Dorothee Bittscheidt, Justus Frantz, Elfriede Jelinek, Jan Delay, Fatih Akin, Esther Bejarano, Jack Kurfess, Dr. Miriam Rürup, Pheline Roggan, Isabel Enzenbach und vielen anderen mehr.
www.manifest-fuer-lampedusa-hh.de/ | Mail: lampedusa-hh-manifest@gmx.de | 

Samstag, 7. Juni 2014

Freitag, 6. Juni 2014

Zeugen des Krieges video: police brutality against peaceful sit-in of "Lampedusa in Hamburg"

A civil disobedience - a peaceful sit in - was brutally attacked by
Hamburg police. Since one year the Hamburg Senate (social democrat
SPD) with its mayor Olaf Scholz is refusing to recognize the basic
rights of the libyan war refugees"Lampedusa in Hamburg". Samuel Mensah
und Francis Kwame died in consequence of which. After so many
demonstrations the group decided a sit in on the city hall suare in
front of the Government house.
Several Refugees and supporters who joined the act of civil
disobedience were pulled violently out of the sitting crowd resisting
only by their physical presence determined not to leave. Some were
arrested and later released. The Police could not break the protest.
After the first and the second wave of attacks on the protesters the
police recognized that it will take long to evict the place while more
people may enter the square. The group decided to march to the police
station where their brothers were detained. Three Watercanons were
placed at the station and police untis blocked the way. At the same
time most of the arrested were released. The remainig three were
brought to the police headquarter for finger printing procedures. They
seized their italian documents and gave a paper with the request to
report on the same day at the immigration office.
It was another shameful day for Hamburg but a strong signal of the
refugees to resist the silent killing in Germanys asylum and
deportation system.

solidarity to all the refugee resistance everywhere


report by caravan hamburg

thanks to all who stand firm at the side of the witnesses of NATO war
against Libya and  Africa continental

TAKE ACTION! Hamburg Police Brutalizing Lampedusa refugees peaceful protest


http://thevoiceforum.org/node/3611

Police evicted the peaceful protest of Lampedusa in Hamburg / Polizei
räumt den friedlichen Protest der Lampedusa in Hamburg
(see caravan info in english  and   deutsch unten)

Register your protest by Telephone, Fax and email to the Authorities in
Hamburg and Luxemburg:
Please act to stop the police violence which took place in Hamburg
against the 50 to60 refugees of the Lampasas’ group in Hamburg who were on
sit-in-strike in solidarity protest in front of city hall.
The refugees are demanding from the city administration of Hamburg to grant their request for  residence permit according to paragraph 23 and working permits and also to express their solidarity with the victims of 
police brutality in Luxemburg.

At about 15.00Uhr in Hamburg:  The courageous Lampadusa refugees led a
spontaneous protest in front of the city hall to continue the protest
against their homelessness, till now several people have been wounded in
the bloody attacks of the police in Hamburg. The refugees were attacked
attacked, many refugees and activists were arrested and detained in the
police station.

Earliar today, at about 12.noon in Luxemburg: The Europe-wide refugee
protest “March for freedom of movement” from Strasbourg to Brussels had
been attacked violently and gas sprayed by the Police in Luxemburg during
their protest at the EU conference of the internal ministers.
http://freedomnotfrontex.noblogs.org/

The VOICE Refugee Forum call to protest the bloody violence of the German
police against the protesters and that Police should act as “civilized”
citizens as we demand the immediate release of the protesters, we demand
public apology for their ignorance in favor of the discrimination and
repressions of the people in Europe while we hold the ministers
responsible to investigate immediately the abuses of the police.

Please act to stop the police violence and intimidation of protesters and
condemn the police violation of our democratic rights to protest and for
public assembly in Germany and in Europe.

You can organize public protests and solidarity in your communities and
Register your protest by Telephone, Fax and email to the Authorities in
Hamburg and Luxemburg to Free Our Brothers and Sisters:

Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2014

Hamburg Rathaus : Lampedusa in Hamburg brutal geräumt vom sitin am Rathaus platz.

es fing sehr friedlich an

es gibt nichts zu sagen sagten die Lampedusas in Hamburg

und machten ein sitin vom Rathaus platz

Touris informierten sich 

bis Polizisten ankamen und anfingen aufzufordern den platz zu verlassen
















wer klaut da die VERDI Fahne?

und schmeisst sie ganz unelegant hin.

zum Glück gab es noch eine



erst verprügeln, dann festnehmen und dann den Feuerwehrwagen umzingeln.













we want to have your personalities klang es durch den polizeilichen lautsprecher… wie geht das bitte?





















                                                        copyright fotos: marily stroux
                                                        copyright brutalität: Polizei HH
                                                    ausser die 44 die remonstriert haben!


http://refugee-welcome-center-hh.info
https://www.flickr.com/photos/98466105@N06/sets/72157645020451501/

http://hh-mittendrin.de/2014/06/lampedusa-in-hamburg-besetzt-rathausmarkt/

http://www.taz.de/Proteste-der-Lampedusa-Fluechtlinge-/!139869/

Video:
http://www.hamburg1.de/aktuell/Tumulte_vor_dem_Rathaus-21123.html

http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/935169.hamburger-polizei-geht-gegen-protest-von-fluechtlingen-vor.html