Mbolo's Nigerian Embassy Appeal on Police Terrorism - Prosecution Terror
on Oury Jalloh Activists
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/3783

RACIST POLICE TERROR – LEGAL IMPUNITY – JURIDICAL CRIMINALIZATION

Unlawful police brutalities and connected juridical prosecutions have been
accompanying our struggles for self-determination in this country ever
since. This continuously repeating history has led us to realize: there
is more beyond these brutalities and repressions that kill, hurt and
humiliate our brothers and sisters in the name of state and law – this is
terrorism!

“Terror, is from the French terreur, from Latin terror meaning "great
fear", a noun derived from the Latin verb terrere meaning "to frighten",
is a policy of political repression and violence intended to subdue
political opposition…The modern definition of terrorism refers to criminal
or illegal acts of violence at randomly chosen targets, in an effort to
raise fear…Terror on the other hand is practiced by governments and law
enforcement officials, usually within the legal framework of the state…
…David Forte states that the primary difference between terror and
terrorism is that while terror can be neutrally evil (i.e., random
violence committed by robbers, rapists, and even military personnel),
terrorism has the additional political or moral dimension, being the
systematized use of randomly focused violence by organized groups against
non-combatants to effect a political objective.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror)

On these grounds police terrorism at itself should be seen as enforced arm
of the brutal militarization in the racist repressions of migrants to
scare off the people from their self-determination and to make us
venerable – vulnerable to the discrimination perpetrated on us by
oppressions and injustice of the state.

We call on the refugees’ community to fight back in solidarity with those
who have been hit by police brutality and are additionally casted to
arbitrary prosecution in the aftermath, while on the other hand the
unlawfulness of the initial police measures have been established but none
of the perpetrators has been legally trialed for their approved abuses in
a matter to cover up the terror.

This fight cannot be won by just achieving sole acquittals for those who
have been dragged to court to criminalize their right to act in
self-defense against the terror – we need to break this mentality of
institutionalized brutalization, of legal impunity for the offenders and
juridical criminalization of the actual victims which is an established
culture of social discrimination and destruction.

If we do not want the same history of racial discrimination to be repeated
endlessly in Germany, we have to break the silence about the terror of
police by racially profiled abuses in juridical impunity.