In the case of the months-long systematic abuse in a refugee home in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia Burbach has spoken, the district court of Siegen three judgments. A security guard has been sentenced to probation, a security Guard and a so-called social managers have to pay fines. In order to speed up judgments against the confessed accused, has been separated, the process against them from the main procedure. the
you have beaten ordered to your protection, and locked up, again and again, over a period of months: In the case of systematic abuse in a refugee home in Burbach, the district court of Siegen has spoken on Tuesday, the first sentences against security guards.
Because of multiple-deprivation of liberty it imposed fines against a security Guard and a so-called social managers in the amount of 900 or 1200 Euro. A 28-year-old security guard was sentenced to a suspended sentence of one year, because he slapped the refugees in addition, and kicked, had failed.
in Order to speed up verdicts against the three confessed the accused, had been separated, the process against them by the great, since November of the current main method with 25 defendants. This will take according to observers for months. The three convicted defendants were Westphalia, according to the court, part of an arbitrary punishment system of the security guards in the refugee accommodation in North Rhine-Westphalia.
about four years Ago, the scandal of systematic abuse and harassment had become known. Among other things, refugees were locked up for violations of the house rules in a “problem room”.
The abuse in September 2014, through cell phone photos and a Video are known, and triggered nationwide horror. Apparently, the residents of the property for violations of the rules of the house were Smoking, or alcohol consumption in the rooms – sometimes for several days in so-called “problem rooms” locked up. The refugee camp is set up in a former barracks. During the Transport in these rooms, it should have body injuries, as well as assaults and thefts.
As a motive for the abuse, the Prosecutor’s office suspects that the guards did not want to jeopardise the reputation of the institution. Therefore, they had tried to keep the number of notifications of incidents to the police and regulatory authorities is low. Accused two employees of the district government in Arnsberg. They are accused of in the indictment deprivation of liberty. They should have known of the acts, without doing anything.