Fearing deportation, a 35-year-old Pakistani jumps from the first floor. Darmstadt’s mayor Akdeniz speaks of unbearable circumstances and demands clear conditions of residence from the federal government.
In a panic about being deported, a 35-year-old man from Pakistan jumped out of the window of a refugee shelter in Darmstadt. When he fell from the first floor, he injured himself so badly that he had to be hospitalized, said Samar Khan from the aid organization “We are Pakistan” of the Frankfurter Rundschau. The man is said to have been lying behind the house for hours until a security officer discovered him. “He was totally scared when the police came because he thought they wanted to pick him up,” said Khan. The 35-year-old has a tolerance. The police had come because of another Pakistanis who they wanted to take to the deportation detention facility in Darmstadt-Eberstadt.
The police headquarters in South Hesse confirmed on request that it had been instructed on Tuesday to visit and arrest a resident in the accommodation. The person concerned managed to escape from the building. The search for him is ongoing. Another resident, whom the police officers had not been looking for, “for reasons incomprehensible so far, when seeing the police officers suddenly jumped out of a window on the first floor,” explained police spokeswoman Andrea Löb.
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In the refugee accommodation Otto-Röhm-Straße in Darmstadt currently lives 700 people. Many of them are recognized as being entitled to asylum, but cannot find an apartment.
In the first residence 80 refugees are currently living in the Jefferson settlement. Originally there were 800.
As a toleration the certificate on the “temporary suspension of deportation” of foreigners who are obliged to leave the country is called. It does not give the person concerned a legal residence in Germany.
Who for three months has a Duldung, can take up employment. cka
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The incident in the refugee dormitory on Otto-Röhm-Straße was “extremely tragic,” said mayor and social affairs officer Barbara Akdeniz (Greens) of the FR. It is important that the people, some of whom have had their center of life here since 2015, “finally get safe living conditions”. These people lived in terrifying circumstances. “It is unbearable for individuals when they constantly have to fear being deported.” Akdeniz demands that the federal government should finally create clear conditions.
Khan also reports that Pakistanis have been hunted down recently. There is great panic among them. In the meantime, collective deportations are taking place on a monthly basis. The next one should take place on September 21 from Frankfurt Airport.
According to the Hessian Refugee Council, people from Pakistan make up the third largest group of people required to leave Hesse, although deportations are much more difficult to implement for the other large groups such as people from Afghanistan and Iraq. “This is why the deportation authorities seem to be concentrating on the Pakistanis, with scandalous cases regularly occurring,” criticized the Refugee Council. According to Khan, ten of her compatriots are currently in custody. One of them is Usman S. from Grevenstein, for whom she has submitted a petition in the Hessian state parliament – “unfortunately too late”, as she says.
S. has been working at McDonalds for five years and had an employment license. But now he should be deported because he could not show a language certificate, explains Samar Khan. However, he has not yet been able to do this because the language schools were closed for a long time due to the pandemic.
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