We remember Ferhat Mayouf, who died in a cell fire in Moabit Prison in Berlin on July 23, 2020. He was 36 years old.

After a fire broke out in his cell, Ferhat Mayouf screamed desperately for help for several minutes and knocked on the door. According to another prisoner, four prison officers stood in the hallway and waited for the fire department to arrive instead of opening the cell door and rescuing Ferhat Mayouf. At some point the shouts stopped. When the fire department opened the cell door more than twenty minutes later, Ferhat Mayouf was already dead.

Before that, he and the prison guards allegedly had an argument. The guards apparently then beat him up and isolated him in a specially secured detention room called "bunker." Three days before his death, Ferhat Mayouf had also asked to see a doctor at a detention review meeting because he had severe depression. But he received no help.

Ferhat Mayouf's brother filed a criminal complaint against the four guards who condoned his death. However, the case was dropped with no result.

Sources: www.taz.de, criminalsforfreedom.noblogs.org, www.ari-dok.org