After a dispute in an asylum case: Cottbus Chechens make serious allegations against the police

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S Wounded echs, including one shot, 26 men suspected in detention – that was the police record, because in mid-June, Chechens and Afghans clashed in a Cottbus asylum. Today, 25 Chechen families have sent an open letter to the Brandenburg Minister of the Interior, Karl-Heinz Schröter (SPD), and to Cottbus Mayor Holger Kelch (CDU). In this one, they make serious allegations against the police, politicians and the media.

In the letter to the RBB, the Chechens write that until now they had only spoken about it but not with them. In the same night, they had experienced an "injustice" that they now required to be clarified

The letter also spoke of "racist bias" "general to the Chechens of Brandenburg

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Specifically, the letter accuses some Chechens involved in the conflict of being detained in conditions allegedly inhumane by the police. For example, one of the detainees was deprived of water for his medication. He and other men should have sat in the cell only with underwear.

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A protocol was not done by the police, families were not informed of the Where the men were, they would not have known for hours that the men would come back.The criticism also applies to police behavior in the housing of asylum seekers, where mothers were threatened with firearms in front of their children during the conflict raid.After that, one of the children was traumatized.

In their letter, asylum seekers have also made a request to the Ministry of the Interior saying that they would prefer to place them in housing rather than houses in a decentralized way, and the families requested access to work and to the language

A copy has been sent to the Federal President

According to RBB information, the letter was received by the Ministry of the Interior of Brandenburg. A copy of the letter was also sent to Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

During the quarrel between Afghans and Chechens, several people were injured in the night of June 12-13. The groups concerned accused themselves of having triggered the conflict. He is the subject of an investigation for badault and breach of peace.

In recent months, Cottbus has repeatedly been the scene of litigation – among asylum seekers, but also between right-wing extremists and migrants. To put a security sign, Mayor Kelch wants to introduce a ban on weapons in parts of the city. This should also be aimed at ensuring that the police can easily carry out checks.