Paying for German Residenzflicht means legitimation of Apartheid rule

Paying for German Residenzflicht means legitimation of Apartheid rule

As Refugee Activists from Schwabisch Gmünd, we stand to ignore any law
that disrespect our bona-fide rights and demand the full abolition of the
Apartheid Residenzflicht Law in Germany.

Paying a dime for our right to freedom of movement means complementing and
legitimating of racial discrimination and colonial injustice.
We the refugees from Schwabisch Gmund were racially profiled by the Police
in thüringen as we travelled to participate in a conference organised by
the VOICE Refugee Forum in Jena on 17th April 2014.

On this Thursday evening as we were sitting on a train that left Nurnberg
for Jena, two coloured clothed men approached us as Police Officers and
demanded that we present our identity documents for control.
As we questioned why they selected us for the control and expressed our
feeling of absolute discrimination, their responce was that they were
doing their Job as usual.

As the first refugee activist amongst us presented his Identity document,
they noticed the issuing district and started with the usual apathied
Residence obligation Law which made us to question whether our place at
that point in time was part of Germany or otherwise.

They confirmed that we were still within the German Republic but that the
so called Toleration Identity card ”DULDUNG” restricts us from being their
at that point in time except we are able to present an issued permission
from the local foriegn Office in Schwabisch Gmünd.

At one of the Officers questioning if we were all together as a group, we
responded with a loud yes after which they proceeded to asking for our
Ausweis. For us it was no problem if the police had gone round to
control everybody in the train as we boldly told them.

We refused to present further Identity documents not until they convince
us that the control was not having to do with racial profiling but they
ignored us and rather took to calling for more Police to wait for us at
our destination in Jena.

When we got to the Jena paradise train station, about 10 policemen with
their vehicles were already awaiting us. Their approaching us for our
Identity documents on our stepping out of the Train generated an arguement
for more than 20minuites in presence of jena based Activist who were
present in solidarity.

The Police officers continued to threaten that we will not be allowed out
of the Train station without presentation of our Identity documents.
Beacuse we realised that the act of the police Officers was a possible
strategy to cause distraction to the planned conference that was to take
place in jena, we unanimously decided to hand over and abandon the
Colonial Tags „so called Ausweis“ and concentrate on mission in Jena.
Based on this happening, the schwabisch Gmünd Local Authourity have served
each of us with fines of 103 Euro for violating the Apartheid
Residenzflicht Law for which we stand to ignore because our rights to
freedom of movement cannot be downplayed by the German Apatheid residence
obligation law.

We hereby call for nationwide solidarity against this continious act of
criminalisation and persecution of Refugees in Germany.
We re-emphasis our determination to be anywhere we wish to be because No
border can stop our political and social Engagement.

Frankline Ndam
Aremu Leke
Uwaila Ernest
Akhamiojie Paul
Efe Omorogbe
Raphael Paul
James Ogoloma
Stanley Inegbenosa
Farooq Khan
Ahmad Haidari

Refugee Initiative Schwabisch Gmünd in Baden-Württemberg

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