We wonder why refugees are not allowed to move around within germany and are even not allowed to visit there friends in other regions!
On February 28th 2013 we went to our friends in the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft
Nördlingen to support them with their protests against the leaving
conditions in the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft. Part of the protest was the
refusal of the food packages and to block the parking lot where the
truck with the foodpackages was standing in order to for the public and
the responsible administration to come over and listen to the refugees.
During the protests the head of the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft talked to
the police and pointed at the six of us refugees of the
Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Schwäbisch Gmünd who are also Activist of the
voice and caravane for the right of refugees and migrant.
She told the police that we do not live in the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft and we are even not allowed to stay there because of the Residenzpflicht. She even told them, that we are the ringleaders or motivator, which force the local refugees to protest and to boykott the foodpackages. Our names were registered the following morning when we were at the trainstation in Nördlingen.The police was obviously looking for us and finnaly controled us in the train in the usuall manner of racial profiling and discrimination among other passengers in the train
On March 5th
the public administration in Augsburg sent us letters in which they told
us that we are banned from the Gemeinschaftsunterkunft because of our
unallowed stay over night and the disturbance of domestic peace. Which
the refugees who leaved in the Lager or the public never complained
about.
Since the police of Nördlingen recorded our AUSWISS, we got
letters that we have to meet with the Schwäbisch Gmünd Police
(25/03/2013) 10hr. for a hearing as defendants being blamed for Nötigung
(compulsion) and Verstoß gegen das Versammlungsgesetz (offense against
the law of assembly).
We disagree with the statements of the
Heimleitung in Nördlingen and the accuasation of the police. YES, we
were in Nördlingen! YES, we were taking part in the protests! YES, we
were supporting our friends in our common struggle. But NO, we were not
the ringleaders who forced people to start protest actions which they
actually didn't want to start. Protests have taken place in Nördlingen
several times in the last years, even without solidarity from other
Gemeinschaftsunterkünfte and the protests are still going on there.
WE DO NOT ACCEPT THE HOUSE BAN OF THE GEMEINSCHAFTSUNTERKUNFT IN NÖRDLINGEN!
The house ban was imposed by the Heimleitung.(Alexandra Reinhardt) Not
by anyone of the refugees. The Heimleitung is not living in the
Gemeinschaftsunterkunft. But our friends are. We didn't violate there or
bring any danger to someone. To the contrary we supported them in our
common struggle. We don't let you (Alexandra Reinhardt) forbid us to
visit our friends. The ban makes us feel being treated in a racist way.
No German citizen would forbid another German citizen to visit a friend.
We are convinced that the Heimleitung (Alexandra Reinhardt) is abusing
her office for her dubious points of view, by writing this letter for no
reason. If she has nothing to do, she better use her time to solve the
problems of the refugees in Nördlingen. There are enough problems being
more serious than writing such a letter of a Hausverbot.
WE WILL NOT PAY ONE CENT FOR THE RESIDENZPFLICHT!
The Residenzpflicht forbids a refugee to leave the Landkreis/Lager
where his/her living situation is repression from the administrations
and leads to isolation from the society. We do not accept this
regulation, because it offends our civil liberties (right of abode,
general right of acting/ Freizügigkeit, Allgemeine Handlungsfreiheit),
the Grundrechte (especially Artikel 11 - Freizügigkeit im Bundesgebiet)
and the Geneva Conventions concerning the rights of Asylum seekers.