[imc-presse] [No Border Camp _ Presse] PM No.12 Besetzung

[media-nbc at riseup.net]

Korrigierung der Pressemitteilung 10/2012 vom 20. Juli 2012
No Border Camp Köln / Düsseldorf 2012
+++ Aktivist_innen besetzten das französisches Konsulat in Düsseldorf +++
Martin Luther Platz 26 +++ Forderung nach Aufklärung des Todes von
Noureddin Mohamed (28) in Calais +++

Noureddin Mohamed, a popular 28 year-old refugee from Darfur, was found
dead in a canal in central Calais, France, at 3.30am Saturday 7th July.
Initially police stated that Noureddin died following a civilian pursuit
after having stolen a woman's mobile phone and jumping into the
canal. Yet this story has been changed numerous times since, and even the
official line on how he died is unclear.
No-one involved in the alledged pursuit of Noureddin has been arrested,
nor is anything known about them. At present the police have closed the
case claiming accidental death on the basis of statements from three
unknown sources. Noureddin's body has been buried without autopsy and no
attempt has been made to hear statements from his friends. The victim's
uncle has made an official demand with the state prosecutor for a murder
inquiry.

Noureddin's friends tell a different story from the official line. They
state that moments before his death, the victim and his friends were
aggressively challenged by police. This is not without precedent in
Calais, a town where migrants are hassled, stopped, chased and arrested on
a daily basis over immigration issues.

This case echos numerous others in Calais that police have refused to
investigate. Noureddin's death has alarming parallels with that of a young
Eritrean man, Ismael, whose body was found at the bottom of a bridge near
the apparent site of Nouredin's death on 22 December last year. The police
immediately closed the case, writing it off as suicide, without any
evidence for this conclusion.

Nourredin had been in Calais four years and had only recently been granted
leave to remain there as a refugee. Friends, family, supporters and other
migrant communities in Calais believe that his death is not being taken
seriously because he was a migrant. Sans-papiers and refugees protested
repeatedly in Calais, showing that they are willing to risk everything in
order to show their anger at the injustice no Nourredin This Tuesday, 17th
July, over 20 people held a demo outside the French embassy in London to
call for an immediate investigation into the death of Noureddin Mohamed.
We are here today for the same reason, as in London we demand that
Noureddin's death be investigated without further delay and proof of the
official line provided. Solidarity with Noureddin, his family, friends and
migrant communities around the world.

Racist border and nation constructs continue killing around the world.
That has to stop. Now.

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Noureddin is the eighteenth reported death of a migrant in Calais in the
past three years. Others go unnamed, without vigils and protests, without
families to advocate on their behalf:

- 2012:

7th July: 28 year-old Noureddin Mohamed, from Sudan, was found dead in canal
9th April: Zenebe, an Eritrean man was found dead in an abandoned lace
factory

- 2011:

22nd December: Ismael, an Ethiopian man, was found dead at the foot of a
bridge
9th December: Iranian man killed after being hit by a bus walking along
the road at night
17th November: Two Egyptians being transported in the boot of a car are
killed during a crash. The other passengers survived.
11th September: Yousuf, aged 28, Sudan, is killed whilst trying to cross.
10th May: Iranian man is killed whilst trying to cross, apparently falling
from a lorry
22nd February: Afghan man, aged 24, drowns in the canal whilst being
chased by the PAF

- 2010:

10th April: Rahmaddin, a 16-year old Afghan, is crushed by a lorry during
an attempted crossing
9th April: Eritrean migrant found dead in an abandoned building

- 2009:

15th December: A 15-year old Afghan boy, is killed trying to cross

30th October: 25-year old Indian man found dead in lorry during attempted
crossing
13th June: Aman, a 35-year old Eritrean man died trying to wash in the
canal, showers being refused by the authorities
19th May: Vietnamese woman is found dead on the road after apparently
falling from a lorry
5th April: An unnamed man is killed after falling off a train in the
channel tunnel
25th February: Glara, a six-day old Iraqi Kurdish baby dies as parents
were forced to sleep in the cold
7th January 2009: A 30-year old Afghan stabbed in a fight


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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Pressegruppe und Aktivist_innen des No Border Camps Köln / Düsseldorf 2012
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