Arrest made over the death of Dresden asylum seeker – “The 26-year-old suspect is also thought to be from Eritrea”
"The 26-year-old suspect is also thought to be from Eritrea, quelling rumors that the murder was a hate crime" About a week after an Eritrean refugee was found dead in his apartment, an arrest warrant has
“The 26-year-old suspect is also thought to be from Eritrea, quelling rumors that the murder was a hate crime”
About a week after an Eritrean refugee was found dead in his apartment, an arrest warrant has been issued for his roommate. The incident has raised questions over the safety of asylum seekers in Germany.
The Dresden district attorney’s office confirmed on Thursday that an arrest warrant for manslaughter had been issued in the case of an asylum seeker who was found dead a little over a week ago. The accused killer had been remanded into custody as a result of DNA evidence found on the murder weapon.
The suspect was a housemate of Khaled B., the 20-year old from Eritrea who was discovered dead in his high-rise in Dresden’s Leubnitz-Neuostra district where he lived with other asylum seekers. The police originally issued a report saying there was no evidence of foul play, but reversed this statement when a coroner’s report listed multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest.
The 26-year-old suspect is also thought to be from Eritrea, quelling rumors that the murder was a hate crime, which had been circulating since swastika graffiti was found in the staircase near Khaled’s apartment. The accused has allegedly confessed while in custody and given his motive as a fight over household concerns that turned violent.
Khaled’s death spurred an outcry over the treatment of asylum seekers, particularly as it occurred in the same city where weekly anti-Islamization marches by the PEDIGA protest group take place. Although the group denies being xenophobic, they are often criticized for stirring up anti-foreigner sentiment.
Thousands had gathered on Saturday for a memorial following his passing to pay their respects to the late Khaled, carrying signs that say “Ich bin Khaled” or “I am Khaled” and lighting candles.
es/msh (AFP, dpa)
Editor’s note: Deutsche Welle is bound by German law and the German press code, which stresses the importance of protecting the privacy of suspected criminals or victims and obliges us to refrain from revealing full names in such cases.
Source: Deutsche Welle
AHMED SALEH !!! January 23, 2015
I thought he was killed after left home to a store but not inside his apartment .
I am numb nothing to say and hard to swallow for arrest of roommate in connection
to the murder and sadly happen to be his fellow Eritrean refugee .
It just add salt to the injury for more pain . WEY GOOOOD ZEBAHRNA !
AHMED SALEH !!! January 23, 2015
Frustrating scenario witnessed from those refugees strange behavior .
Initially according the report his six roommates seem to give misleading information
to investigators . Like he left to buy a cigarette and didn’t came back . I wonder
if there is secrets to cover-up the killing among them . If that is the case they may
deport them to were they came from because refusal to cooperate showed non-trustworthy
credibility before their petition for asylum process begin .
Wadbahar January 23, 2015
Brother,
The problem may not be the refugees. It cannot be ruled out that the police are looking up for scapegoat, and the soft and safer targets here are the victim’s country-men. What is the guarantee that the police are different from the man in the street in the notorious city of Dresden? At present, how many native Germans tolerate seeing immigrants breathing the same air what they do? Could the police be immune from the general atmosphere in the city given the history of that society and the level of frustration of the people in former East Germany over the economy and politics? I think we should not rush into the judgment and blame the refugees? Let us wait and see.
AHMED SALEH !!! January 23, 2015
I wish your side Judgement is right .
fact-is-fact January 23, 2015
Wadbahar,
you have a point @ your Wadbahar on January 23, 2015 at 1:41 pm said.
However, brother Ahmed Saleh’s concern is also truly valid as mant Eritreans in particular those who have left home after the Badme war have been showing a very traumatized, dangerous, aggressive behavior that even leads some to killing. Thus nothing is impossible!
As for Germans, let alone after the dissipation of cold war era where they fear no one (WARSAW PACT – Russia & E. German in particular), even before that Europe’s treatment of refugees had been (has been) if not physical but psychological kill. No one allowed to work, to go to school until uncertain future (it at least used to take 5yrs or more before one even allowed to have that work paper. And the work type? you guess it! what a waste of mind for those of us who wanted to use our brain. God bless America that yanked us and told us –enho feres enho Golgol–
and we never looked back!!! I lived in Germany from 87-89 and landed in blessed USA in 90.
Any African that directly come to America doesn’t know how Heaven America is. Europe (such as Sweden..) may give you housing, school your children while your ass is glued to the sofa… yet America hands you the uninhibited individual freedom and to use it or misuse it is based up on you! What a country!
And if you lived, passed thru the Arab world that includes the stinky “North Africans” & East Europeans, you even appreciate America more!!!
…Just reminding us all — How this beautiful U.S.A is exceptional land comparing to any place on earth!!! just stating the FACT and why do I have a feeling that you all are saying – AMEN !
Best!
Wadbahar January 23, 2015
I understand and value AHMED’s fears and frustration, and the contrast you have drawn. Anyway, let us see what the final result would be, though the stories I hear from Germany, including about the police, is very worrisome. Let me hope that I am biased.
AHMED SALEH !!! January 23, 2015
Wadbahar and Facts
We respect the law of innocent until proven guilty and let’s hope final outcome of police
report is flawed by specious reasoning .
But at the same time we witnessed strange and inhumane characters unheard in the culture of
God fearing society which raised us all .
We destroyed the rich and respected reputation
of our people morally to get lost .
Our generation went through same risky journey
but the love and support on each other made life
easier . Anyway I feel sorry for our Youngs .
Wadbahar January 23, 2015
AHMED & fact-is-fact,
Reading between the two lines in the comments by both of you, I would assume that your relative young age, upbringing at home (this is also an assumption), firsthand experience with the current youth, the knowledge of their psyche, and the level of social decadence it was planned for them to have by the regime, have put you in a better position and made you better-equipped to grasp the otherwise ungraspable and have a better sense of the situation than others who lack all of the above advantages. On the other hand, it is understandable that these advantages would make you more frustrated, more restless, more depressed and more devastated, contemplating the worst scenario. This is the price you are paying or the punishment going through for the advantages you have over others who lack the advantages I just raised. Our neigbours, the Sudanese, have many humorous things to say, among which is: “Alle FeQalbu Hurgus Barahu Yergus” (The knowledge of particular facts about a specific situation makes you more restless than others).
In order to realize the context of my comments, as I tried to realize yours, it is good to share with you that a friend of mine who reads German surprised me with two disgusting stories that show Nazism is still alive and well, walking and acting openly in the streets in broad day light. The article he said quotes a woman saying she does not want to see an immigrant wearing good clothes, while an old man saying he cannot tolerate immigrants get better salary than his pension. Mind you, most of the immigrants in Germany do petty jobs that many native Germans do not accept, irrespective of the level of education of the foreigners. With these stories in mind, do you blame me for being biased, if I could conclude that the hate of foreigners is these days tattooed on the foreheads of many Germans? Do you blame me, if I interpret and connect events to the general xenophobic and racist climate? Cheers!
abrham January 23, 2015
”who care about a dead fish”,we all eritreans are dead fish
Ghebrehans T. January 24, 2015
When we ask our shocked selves what indeed happened in Dresden-Germany, the obvious response would be that the white extreme nationalists or some racist police officers were involved. But this is symbolic in the larger context in that the Eritrean nation is dying in its effort to reincarnate a nation created in the image of colonial Italy – the result of a generation’s misconstrued concept of modernity.
It is after witnessing how that colonial Eritrea functions under ‘tegadelti’ that the youth began to flee the nation in mass exodus. It is the horror of this reincarnated colonial entity that is driving the youth out of the nation, into the hands of smugglers, kidnappers, torturers, rapists, murderers and cruel deserts and also to unforgiving/unknown SIDET/WIRDET/HISRET. That is to say, at the root of the current Eritrean tragedy is the deep and thorough colonial aspiration of the ghedli genaration – both of the Christian and Muslim types.
No other people have worked for so long, so hard and with such consistency against their self-interest – again, this remains especially true of our poor Eritrea. A people with such intense determination to continue the ghedli journey that eventually leads to mass suicide. In short, at the bottom of the current Eritrean tragedy is this colonial sense of entitlement of the ghedli generation that is driving the youth in droves out of the country. Last, remember our wise forefathers saying of “Habae kuslu Habe fewsu” indeed.
Gherhi Libu January 24, 2015
Ghebrehans, you are probably the only person I read in this website who has clearly diagnosed the Eritrean problem. Most of the young people leaving in droves do not see anything that resembles a nation state in Eritrea, hence they flee because whatever they can’t find in Eritrea, they intend to get it elsewhere even if they have to pay the ultimate price. They would much rather die fleeing Eritrea than fighting for it – fighting for freedom or prosperity or what have you. They can clearly see that the misguided policies of IA and PFDJ, particularly national service, are disastrous but no one is willing to fight for Eritrea. They do not have that sense of ownership as in the ghedli generation, which is blinded by hate towards anyone who doesn’t agree with the colonial aspirations of the existence of Eritrea.
There will never be a solution in Eritrea. Not democracy, constitution, elections, none of that will solve our problems. We cannot get there. We have been duped by the likes of Egypt into believing there exists such a thing as Eritrea. We need to look at the bigger picture. We have been working against our own self interest for decades now. We have been blinded by ‘land first.’ We need to turn that around and say ‘people first’ because a land with no people is the same as the biblical jews after the Babylonian captivity.
Teclay January 24, 2015
Ghebrehans T
How bitter is your comment to swallow.Let me say it again “No other people have worked for so long, so hard and with such consistency against their self-interest ”
Nothing to say except to swallow.
Biniam Kidane January 24, 2015
Ghebrehans T and Gherhi Libu,
You both said it eloquently, I just couldn’t agree more and please keep it up brothers.
When we reach the point where we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t, it is the sign that all roads have merged into one and that we have reached the edge of the existention cliff. The ghedli generations’ sense of entitlement over the land, its resources and its labor force matches any other colonial master’s in Africa.
Selam Kidane once wrote that while the fathers (that is, the ghedli generation) died for the country, the sons (the young generation) run away from it. That happens to be true, but what she (Selam Kidane) left out is the fact that the sons were driven out of the country by none other but those very fathers the so called “tegadelti & liberators”.
Rastaman January 24, 2015
I read a very responsible genuine discussion regarding the socio-political illnesses of Eritrea. Biniam Kidane, well said, however “THE LEADERSHIP” and the “tegadelti and liberators” are not one and the same. We are not even sure if the ‘Leadership’s main agenda was whether independence or some wild grandiose hegemony of ruling the Horn of Africa. Eritrean Independence could have just been a step-ladder for a bigger self serving ego-tripping agenda of the leadership and not to create a prosperous peaceful Eritrea. How else could a war torn nation end up with a “mass suicide”. There is an absolute disconnect with the leadership policies and the dream of a fighting population for Independence and prosperity. The people are being used to serve and fulfill the leadership’s dream. We need to re-evaluate and question as to what the leadership is up to. I sometimes wonder by how many years the leadership had delayed our independence. For all practical purposes, 85% of Eritrea was liberated in 1977. Why wait for the Soviet invasion? Even the 1991 came too soon for the leadership but not for the people. Eritrean labor and resources is being used for agendas unrelated to Eritrea’s development. The people (both Tegadelti and Gebar) are separate from the leadership!
Genet-orginal January 24, 2015
Rastaman
Thank you for your comment.
I feel you believe, the Eritrean people have been betrayed by the so called “Leadership”. A leadership with ulterior motive, who has been working for more than 53 years. Is any body not know, the head of this betrayal has been the same man. Shame on those pro union and the Tegray-Tigrinye dreamers.
Genet-O
Wintana N. January 24, 2015
genet-original
What is your dream then drama queen? While the same one man had been betraying us what have you been doing yourself? Please also enlighten us with your contributions and efforts for a change. All we have in the so-called opposition camps is just critics and fake experts telling us what we already know about our country. Whether you are pro union or against is so irrelevant and childish argument in our people’s current condition of death and life (survival). Grow up fast and no more shames.
assenna January 24, 2015
Wintana N.
kindly watch your language. Refer Assenna guidelines.
Genet-orginal January 25, 2015
Again, Shame on the Pro-union and the Tegray-Tigrnye deramers who have been accusing and blaming the Eritrean people who are the victim of the so called leadership. A leadership with many hidden agendas that has been allowed to maneuver for 53 years in our society. This destructive leadership who has been headed by a single man is still in power. The Eritrean people haven’t been given the chance to dust themselves off and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. However, the pro-union and Tegray-Tigrnye deramers, knowing very well that the Eritrean people have been the victim of unimaginable betrayal, still are applying salt to their gashing wound. Their routine self-serving statements and opinions goes as: “Eritrea is a fake country” “Eritrea is created by colonizer” like it is the only country which was colonized; crazy statement like identifying themselves as they are from pre-medieval period territory. Disregarding the Eritrean peoples’ experience between the time of pre-medieval and the present. Undoubtedly, It is a shrewd self-serving statement. Those pro-union and Tegray-Tigrnye deramers seem to be thriving with each day DIA is in power in our country Eritrea. It is my personal belief and my objective observation that the Eritrean people are the victims of distorted leadership.
Thank you Assenna for allowing me to express my opinion, as an Eritrean.
God please save our people and county. People don’t destroy people, God does.
Genet-O
AHMED SALEH January 24, 2015
Those losers will not stop to go after credibilty of GHEDLI Eritrea to divert the topic
in discussion . The funny part they didn’t realize that we already identified their
sinister purpose in this forum .
Unwelcome guests change appearance to join the party like KURDID .
hureya January 24, 2015
his is absolutely false ,Kalid(RIP) was died surely bay the extremist racist germenian PIGDA group ,but they know our weakens that why they don’t like to take the responsibility to investigate the case in detail simply they want to rush from media by a fabricated lie.Assena,shame on you to post this unreliable and unacceptable ,illogical lie ,assenna up to now i was really like your news and i took it as a fact but to day i loose my confidence 7 i ‘m in doubt about valid information. how could you think ,accept a such value less thing,”even those germinian spoken that by thier name ,how could you ask by one victim in africa thousd lost thier life but nobody talk.they said” it shows how much they are racists.truth never buried
ERITRAWIT January 24, 2015
what a shocking story.
AZ January 24, 2015
Why did they initially say that there was no evidence of foul play? That means they did not analyze the body and when pressures mounted they did? There is something fishy here.