Deportation:German security operatives brutalising migrants

Seebrüecke International,a German organization that wants safe passage and an end to criminalisation of civil sea rescue, has bemoaned the brutalisation of migrants by security operatives seeking to deport people.

Seebrüecke described every deportation
as one too many.

Going on to list cases of abuses and brutalisation, it said: “Three cases from Brandenburg in recent weeks, which “Barnim solidarisch” published in a press release on Saturday, show how brutally deportations are (supposed to be) carried out.

“At the end of February, the administrative court in Frankfurt (Oder) issued a search warrant for a family’s flat because the father of the family had obstructed the deportation of his parents-in-law in 2021.

“As a result of the warrant, the flat of the family, who came to Germany from Chechnya in 2014, was broken into by armed police officers at 6 a.m. without prior notice.

“The four children, aged between 8 months and 6 years, had to watch as their parents were brutally pushed to the ground in order to question them about their grandparents’ whereabouts. The children were terrified for at least days afterwards.”

At the beginning of March, Seebrüecke International said police officers injured a man who was already seriously injured because they suspected a person in his flat. “Officers in civilian clothes entered the flat via the balcony with their weapons drawn, twisted the seriously injured man’s arms.

“They forced him to the floor. Despite explanations from another person present, the injured man was only released after several minutes. The victim then spent 6 hours at the rescue centre and also required several follow-up examinations.

“He was also severely retraumatised and no longer feels safe in his accessible flat. A criminal complaint was filed with the LKA against the police.

A man from Pakistan who had been living in Germany for 8 years wanted to apply to the Barnim Immigration Office for a work permit.

The authority informed him in writing that there were no plans to deport him and that he should attend an appointment with the authority. When he arrived, he was arrested and was to be taken into custody pending deportation.
Fortunately, he was released again in the afternoon on the basis of the detention check against reporting conditions.”

Calling for an end to deportation, Seebrüecke International said: “We say: Stop all deportations, stop the illegalisation and exclusion of people! Self-determined freedom of movement for all. #stopdeportations”