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Schwabisch Gmünd: Police brutalise protesters with dogs & pepper spray

Two Refugees have been injured by the dogs as police sprayed protesters  - mostly refugees - in Laga. Spontanuous demonstration was noticed early hour of April 11 when protesters massively moved to city center.
 
"As refugees continued to demand for the removal of the surveillance
camera in the laga Schwäbisch Gmünd. Refugees put a new banner cover the
camera after the banners which were put several times has been removed by
the Hausmeister and the administration, the Hausmeister with the
administration again this afternoon were removing the banner when some
refugees saw them and intervened, they call the police who came with force
brutality with dogs and released dogs against refugees and injured some
refugees, one Jilius from Kamerun and Farooq Khan from Afghanistan.
They arrested four refugees including Farooq who was bitten by the dog
without treatment, and one of the supporters of refugees in Schwäbisch
Gmünd. They arrested two refugees naked who were inside the bathroom. Even
the Heimleiterin Frau Rettermier were looking at the refugees nakedness.
The rest of the refugees marched to the city blocking the major ways until
the emergency medical care came to take the one who was seriously injured
by the police dogs.

Now we are at the police station demanding the release of the arrested
people, they have released some, we are still waiting for all to be
released. The police are holding one of the refugee's phone, because he
has lots of photos and videos there." by Austin refugees initiative
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We need your urgent support and solidarity against the Police Brutality
and the Authority's abuses of refugees in Schwabisch Gmuend.
Please demand the immediate removal of the CCTV Camera from the refugee
lager.
Please write via Email, Fax and Telephone. see the autority's contact
address below:

Refugees protest continues as landratsamt Ostalkreis Official (Landrat
Klaus Pavel and Mr Hans Michael Betz) undermine the respect for human
dignity.

Refugees protest continue as landratsamt Ostalkreis Official (Landrat
Klaus Pavel and Mr Hans Michael Betz) undermine the respect for human
dignity.

We are Refugees and not prisoners who Mr Betz should spy on 24 hours daily.
Our resistance is aimed at liberating you and those fellow refugees who
has been kept under constant fear of liberating themselves from your
propaganda.
We are calling on members of OSTALB LANDKREIS to address the repressive
attitude of Mr Betz and his folks and bring their old fashion culture of
racism and dictatorship to order.

We are using this protest to once again make our demand clear and symbolic
our unchanging demands as we take on our next line of action.

We are determined to scandalize all form of administrative repression and
abuses that we face in this landkreis on a daily basis.

We have all been criminalised with pending charges of NOTIGUNG, HAUSVERBOT
etc.

While many refugees have been threatened to distance themselves from us to
avoid deportation, some of our comrades were forced out of the Lager with
the intention to separate us and reduce our capacity to resist their
repression etc.

We stand to defend our dignity even at all attempt that you excise to
threaten us.

We are determined to resist even when only one man is left in the lager
because our solidarity knows no distance and sees no separation.

Continue with your false propaganda, threats, criminalization, repression
persecution, racial discrimination mechanisms etc.

Our freedom and dignity has no bound. Its our bonafide right and we shall
not beg for it but take it by force.

Our next line of action goes beyond the lager and even Schwabisch gmuend.
Nothing can stop us. Not even the brutality of state organ.

We can't afford to accept the trauma and frustration in this expected so
called civilized democracy after all that has forced is to become refugees
held in hostage and without rights here in Germany

Enough is a Enough

We call on nation wide solidarity to our struggle in Schwabisch Gmuend.

Contact to the Authority:

Landratsamt Ostalbkreis
Landrat Klaus Pavel E-Mail:
http://www.ostalbkreis.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=kontaktformular_int...

Hans-Michael Betz
Geschäftsbereichsleiter/in
Telefon: 07361 503-1480
Telefax: 07361 50358-1480