We commemorate a Moroccan young man who died in Bonn on January 6, 2022 after five months in a coma. The 21-year-old had been injured and fallen into a coma during a police pursuit in July 2021. His name is unknown to us.

According to police, they stopped the young man in the early morning of July 24, 2021 to check him after a cell phone robbery nearby. He took flight and was pursued, climbing into the courtyard of a building and trying to get onto a roof via a dumpster. A police officer used pepper spray against him whereupon he stumbled and fell into the dumpster with the officer. Subsequently, he was arrested and brought to the police station, in the search small amounts of narcotics and a scale were found. As the young man's health deteriorated significantly, emergency medical services and ambulance were requested, which took him to the intensive care unit. There, internal head injuries were found which presumably led to the coma. According to official information the connection is "unclear", the police Cologne investigates because of the suspicion "fahrlässige Körperverletzung im Amt" (negligent bodily harm in office).

When asked about possible reasons for fleeing from the police, the uncle of the deceased said that he cam as a refugee from Morocco to Germany to study and that he had been in the country illegally.

Source: ga.de