We commemorate Mouhamed Lamine Dramé, who was literally executed by the police with four shots from a machine gun in Dortmund on August 8, 2022.

The 16-year-old had come to Germany from Senegal without his parents. He lived in a housing group for unaccompanied minor refugees in Dortmund's Nordstadt district. He had previously been treated at a psychiatric clinic at his own request.

On August 8, Mouhamed Lamine Dramé was in an acute mental crisis. According to a supervisor, he was allegedly walking around with a knife and holding the blade against his stomach. The supervisor therefore called the police.

Although it was known that the young refugee spoke hardly any German, the officers arrived without an interpreter. Mouhamed Lamine Dramé allegedly did not respond to their shouts. When the police officers attacked him with pepper spray, he allegedly jumped up and approached the officers. The latter escalated the situation further by shooting at him with tasers. One officer then fired six shots at Mouhamed Lamine Dramé with a machine gun. Four of them hit him in the stomach, jaw, forearm and shoulder. He later died during emergency surgery at the hospital.

The investigation was conducted by the Recklinghausen police for reasons of "neutrality". After initially investigating only the shooter, the investigation was later extended to four other police officers. They were then also directed against the officer-in-charge and the officers who had attacked Mouhamed Lamine Dramé with pepper spray and tasers. In mid-February 2023, it was announced that the police officer who shot the young refugee would be charged with manslaughter. He has been suspended from duty in the meantime. Other officers involved in the operation face charges of dangerous bodily harm, and the head of the police unit is charged with incitement to commit dangerous bodily harm.

At the request of the father of the victim, Lamine Dramé, the corpse was transferred to Senegal and buried there. He demands that the circumstances of his son's death be fully investigated.

Sources: blackcommunityhamburg.blackblogs.org, www1.wdr.de, www.nd-aktuell.de, polizeischuesse.cilip.de, perspektive-online.net, www.tagesschau.de