The former head of the refugee home in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia Burbach has been sentenced to probation. The property over a period of months that asylum-seekers had been negotiated at the end of miss. The judge weighed the 38-Year-old, among other things, false imprisonment. He had arranged, refugees in the event of misconduct to terminate in a so-called problem of the rooms. the

In a process to abuse and harassment in a refugee home in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia Burbach, the former home Director has been sentenced to a suspended sentence of one year and three months. The district court of Siegen imposed in addition a fine in the amount of 1200 euros.

Under the leadership of the accused had been locked up in the facility in the siegerland region between 2013 and 2014, refugees repeatedly in a so-called problem of the rooms. The judge weighed the defendant in 33 cases of deprivation of liberty. To be appreciated in his favor the court, especially the comprehensive confession of the 38-Year-old.

the numerous house rules violations in the overcrowded facility, was disposed of, the home’s Director at that time, residents in the event of misconduct shelter in a so-called problem of the rooms. There they were imprisoned against their will – sometimes for days.

The court weighed the defendant to have the setting up of the problem room is the basis for a powerful punishment system is created: Some in the parallel case of the accused guards, and Tutors to beat the caged inhabitants repeatedly, and humiliated have entered.

cell phone photos and a Video have brought the abuses to light

The first convictions for the abuse in the accommodation was like the Siegen district court in December. In a separate procedure, a defendant to a suspended sentence of one year and two other Accused were sentenced to fines. In contrast, in the November, begun in the main proceedings to take the case, Burbach with numerous defendants.

The incidents in the refugee accommodation had become available in September 2014 through cell phone photos and a Video, which triggered nationwide horror: The Video showed security guards, which should have forced a refugee to lay on his vomit stained mattress. On the phone photos a security guard with the foot in the neck of a on the ground fixed home resident’s posing.