Kundgebung vor der ZUE

Heute morgen (10-12 Uhr) haben wir erneut und gemeinsam mit Menschen aus der Zentralen Unterbringungseinrichtung (ZUE) in Münster vor Ort unseren Protest gegen Abschiebungen auf die Straße getragen. Im vergangenen Monat wurden, während der wöchentlichen Geldausgabe in der ZUE, wiederholt Geflüchtete von der Polizei zur anschließenden Abschiebung festgehalten. Trotz schlechtem Wetter und früher Uhrzeit kamen sowohl einige Unterstützer*innen als auch Menschen aus der ZUE zusammen. Neben Redebeiträgen von Menschen, die in der ZUE untergebracht sind, wurde auch der Beitrag einer Person geteilt, die sich aktuell im Bürger*innenasyl befindet und ihre schrecklichen Erfahrungen mit der Abschiebemaschinerie in einer anderen ZUE in NRW erzählt:

It all started when I got the last rejection of my asylum application. The lawyer told me by mail that I must be deported from Germany. During these events, at four in the morning, a police force raided the residence in which I lived and arrested a Syrian person. The force was from more than 6 wheels and many heavily armed policemen. He was forcibly deported without his knowledge. From now on, I decided not to get deported because I saw that the young Syrian was treated like a criminal, as he was handcuffed and put in a detention car.

My friend and I agreed that he would sleep in my room while I slept in his room.

Indeed, after 3 days, a police force came to the refugee camp we are in and entered my room with the help of security men. They opened the room door and found my friend. They asked him to show them papers proving that it was not me, and when the government office in the camp proved that it was not I, they released him During this event, I fled to the nearby forest until the sun rose

Then my friend decided not to do it again out of the severity of the fear and the way in which he was treated.

The matter was repeated a second time after 8 days. A force greater than the first one raided my place of sleep. This time was a surprise as they brought two dogs with them. I was watching them from a few meters away and I managed to escape and this time I hid in my friend’s room.

The main problem is that the police get to know that we are inside the camp through the government office. This is because there are cards with our names that are checked in and out and while eating and while receiving cash allocations. Through this the police are informed of the presence of the asylum seeker

The third and last time that my room was raided was not by the police forces that we know. This time it was from forces wearing civilian clothes equipped with civilian cars and not police cars. They were accompanied by three or four police cars, in addition to the cars they were in. When they came, they closed the building and carefully inspected all those living in the building

But I was already outside while my friends told me that they also searched the rooms next to my room, and after that the security forces in the camp locked the room and took all my belongings from the room.

It was almost as if they were chasing a criminal or a predator. They were bringing weapons as if they wanted to fight.

I did not come to Germany to see the strength with which you could suppress an asylum seeker who came to be protected.

Sorry if my story is long! Sorry, but this part of the story went on for hours, on several days. You cannot imagine how excited you are and think that every hour you will be caught. You cannot sleep in your bed. You cannot eat your food without fear that the police will enter the food area and arrest you. This is a reality as if we were in our country from which we went out to protect our lives.