Oury Jalloh
We commemorate Oury Jalloh, who burned to death with hands and feet tied up in a Dessau police cell on January 7, 2005. He was 36 years old.
To this day, the official judiciary account is that Oury Jalloh set himself on fire. However, various independent expert reports show that this cannot be true. Rather, they suggest that police officers murdered Oury Jalloh and burned his body in order to cover up severe abuse. The senior prosecutor in charge of the case for many years, too, as of late suspected a cover-up murder - whereupon he was removed from the case. In October 2019, the case was permanently closed.