Mehmet case

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The "Mehmet case" was a legal dispute about the juvenile serial offender Muhlis Ari (* 1984 in Munich ; became known under the pseudonym Mehmet), which was the cause of a long-lasting public debate about youth and foreigner crime in Germany. "Mehmet" gained notoriety after he had committed more than 60 crimes by 1998 and was deported to Turkey , of which he is a citizen . He got his pseudonym as a juvenile criminal for data protection reasons . His German place of residence was Munich- Neuperlach .

First conviction and deportation

By his 14th birthday, “Mehmet” had committed more than 60 thefts and break-ins , bodily harm , extortion , coercion and robbery. When he beat a schoolboy to hospital in 1998 at the age of 14 - and thus of criminal age - and robbed the unconscious victim, he was sentenced to a youth sentence of 12 months by the Munich District Court on October 9 of the same year . He never took this sentence because he was instead deported to Turkey at the instigation of the Munich city council , which did not extend his residence permit . The case caused a stir internationally because it was the first time that a child of foreigners legally living in Germany was deported back to their native country alone.

After his deportation, the media in Turkey initially campaigned for Mehmet. He briefly presented music videos on the music channel Kral TV , but was fired after suspicion of theft. Afterwards he worked in a sign shop and a bar in Istanbul, but according to his own statements he never really felt comfortable in Turkey.

Second conviction and escape

Years of litigation followed in Germany. In November 2001 the Bavarian Administrative Court decided that "Mehmet" was allowed to return to Germany. Since his parents had lived in Munich for over 30 years, the city of Munich had to issue a residence permit. This judicial decision was also confirmed by the Federal Administrative Court eight months later . The deportation was declared illegal. Almost four years after he had forcibly left Germany, he was allowed to return by court order in 2002. According to an unconfirmed newspaper article, he made up his secondary school leaving certificate with a final grade of 1.5 and was considered re-socialized.

At the beginning of June 2005 "Mehmet" was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for extorting money from his parents, beating them and threatening them with death. He then fled to Turkey. An expulsion order followed . Since he did not appeal against it , it became final .

Attempts to return

Since the beginning of 2010, Ari has been running a transport company and a paintball facility in the small town of Çerkezköy , which is now closed. According to his lawyer Burckhard Beneken in September 2012, Ari tried to get “the rest of the sentence waived” so that he can return to Germany. Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann refused to return in the same month.

“Mehmet” wanted to present his autobiography , published on October 8, 2013, at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair ; he did not receive an entry permit. The arrest warrant from a Bavarian judicial authority still exists.

Condemnation in Turkey

Ari was sentenced in October 2013 by a court in Antalya for aggravated robbery and deprivation of liberty in the first instance to a prison term of 11.5 years.

literature

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Press release of the Bavarian Administrative Court of November 15, 2001.
  4. ↑ Michael Mielke: Not proven: Mehmet continues his series of courts. In: The world . June 3, 2005, accessed September 28, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Michael Mielke: A neverending story. In: The world . March 4, 2005, accessed September 28, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Jonas Leppin: Mehmet, the criminal foreign youth. In: The time . October 26, 2011, accessed September 28, 2012 .
  7. ↑ "Mehmet" wants to go back to Germany. (No longer available online.) In: de.nachrichten.yahoo.com. September 17, 2012, archived from the original on September 20, 2012 ; Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Bavaria refuses to return "Mehmet". In: Spiegel Online . September 17, 2012, accessed September 28, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Serial offender at the book fair: Authorities refuse "Mehmet" entry. In: Spiegel Online . October 4, 2013, accessed October 9, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Spiegel.de (December 14, 2013): "Mehmet" has again trouble with the judiciary