German Racist Police Control: My statement on the federal police's charges against me - Miloud Lahmar Cherif, The VOICE Refugee Forum‏

My statement on the federal police's charges against me on racist
- Miloud Lahmar Cherif, The VOICE Refugee Forum
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/3929

If you are a non-white man or a woman living in Germany, you have probably
- at least once during your stay here - been asked by the police to show
your personal documents without any obvious reasons behind that behavior.
This act could take place anywhere in Germany, especially in the trains,
train-stations and public spaces. You might have been also wondering why
they did exactly choose YOU among tens or hundreds of white people to ask
you for your personal documents. Often is the answer my color of skin, my
clothing style, my language ..., everything that makes you look different
than this nation.

It is a feeling of injustice when you are the only one in the train
compartment who is asked to show your ID, I feel disrespected, insulted,
discriminated. I see the police as racist executors!
The police uses the power of law to justify the execution of racist
controls, they use the fear that most refugees and migrants are carrying
with them from their home countries, they use the unjustified and
miserable silence of some us!

The policemen and -women will happily tell you that racism cannot be a
crime in Germany, so you can't charge them for being racist at all. But on
the other side - if you tell him or her “you are racist!” they will feel
insulted and will run to the nearest court to let you be prosecuted for
“insult” (Beleidigung). This is the broken logic that the system in
Germany tries to play with us.

One of the many definitions of the Racial Profiling is as follow …“Any
police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national
origin rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads
the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being, or
having been, engaged in criminal activity.”. We are getting criminalized
for being or looking different.

On the 07th September 2014 around 14:45h two federal policemen from
Meiningen asked me in the train heading to Meiningen to show my ID
document for NO REASON. I was the only one controlled because I was the
only non-white in the compartment. When I asked them why they are asking
for my ID, their answer was as follow “This our job and the law gave us
the right to control...”. I told them that this behavior is no more
tolerated by court decisions in Germany and gave them some examples where
the court said that the policeman hasn't the right to control a person
based on his skin color and if that happened than this is racist and no
more a “legal control”. I used the Koblenz Court's Judgment as a
reference.

I insisted to go to their police station at Meinigen train station to hand
in complaint about these two policemen. I spent more than one hour in
their station to do this complaint against the two of them. A month later
I received a letter from the public prosecution office telling me that I'm
accused of “insulting the two policemen” claiming I've told them “you're
racist”. I knew that it wasn't more than a sneaky try from them to hit
back against my complaint that I wrote with insisting intention of taking
the two to the courts. This dirty game that the German policemen routinely
play is about LIE. They have lie to justify their wrong behaviors by
falsifying misrepresentation.

I am determined to face them in Arnstadt District Court on the 28th May
2015 at 10:00 to expose their lies to the public. I did NOT say what they
are claiming. If I would have said it, I wasn't to deny it! Be the
witness! Your solidarity is another key in this fight against racial
profiling in Germany. Let them hear us!

22.05.2015,
Miloud Lahmar Cherif, – The VOICE Refugee Forum- thevoiceforum.org