Systematic hardship - How Germany deports

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Movie
Original title Systematic hardship - How Germany deports
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 30 minutes
Rod
Director Birand Bingül ,
Pagonis Pagonakis ,
Jutta Pinzler
production WDR
camera Christoph Berg,
Norbert Kinzel,
Werner von Mayer-Myrtenhain
cut Martina Pille,
Susanne Schweinheim

Systematic hardship - How Germany Deports is a WDR documentary by Birand Bingül , Pagonis Pagonakis and Jutta Pinzler from 2006 about the deportation practice of German authorities. The report was broadcast for the first time on May 11, 2006.

Further broadcasts took place on June 7th and 8th, 2006 on the television station Phoenix

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The documentation shows current cases of deportations from Germany for which - contrary to previous practice - the deportation date was not announced. The authors of the film investigate the reasons for this and explain the generally tightened procedure from the complex process of deportation, in the course of which there is work and cost pressure for the employees involved - from the judiciary to the aircraft pilots. In order to alleviate this pressure, the authorities apparently increasingly switched to unannounced deportations, which represented a particular hardship for the refugee families concerned.

The film shows the current deportation practice not only from the point of view of those affected - here based on the individual case of the L. family - but also from the point of view of the social environment and the authorities involved. He includes financial and economic considerations as possible motives for their approach. He describes in detail:

  • the process and organization of deportations
  • Examples of “silent” and nocturnal deportations
  • the reactions of neighbors to it
  • the situations of the deported and the consequences for their relatives
  • the language used by the authorities.

He comes to the conclusion that today there is a certain accumulation (“boom”) of deportations that - e. In the case of refugees from the former Yugoslavia , for example , this also affects people against whom an integration and tolerance policy had been practiced in public for years and who are now routinely removed from the country without much publicity.

The documentation presents these individual cases without collecting statistical data on the frequency of the events described. The extent to which the problems described occur in relation to the total number of deportations remains open. For example, the case of a Tamil family with a severely mentally handicapped child from Meschede in the Sauerland is reported, who was deported to Sri Lanka in August 2005 in a nightly action. This family had lived in Germany for over ten years. A neighbor is interviewed who felt reminded of her own past by the behavior of the authorities: "Are we back in Hitlerite?"

It reports on the companies involved such as LTU and Lufthansa and the different ways flight captains deal with the deportation. So in February 2005: The film shows the protests in an airport against the attempted deportation of an Iranian woman to her home country. The woman is threatened with stoning for adultery in Iran . The film shows scenes of a stoning. Friends and demonstrators are demanding a right to stay in the terminal. Police officers then vacate the terminal to ensure that the deportation process goes smoothly. There is "excitement" at boarding. The Lufthansa pilot then aborts the flight. The Iranian, the film reports, is later recognized as a " hardship ". She is granted asylum and is no longer deported. According to the film, deportations at specially set up terminals to which the public have no access are different. The film calls it Gate F of Düsseldorf Airport .

In addition to the situation of traumatized people and the handling of the relevant medical reports by the authorities, the film also reports on the connection between the costs of the rented aircraft and the unannounced deportations. An employee of a deportation authority reports that the aim is to save cancellation fees. Authorities that notify those affected of a date for the deportation would have to put up with criticism from the Federal Border Police, among others , because the families, faced with this situation, increasingly submitted follow-up applications and thus the costs for the deportation would increase.

Reactions

Films like the television documentary Deportation at Dawn and Hardship with a System - How Germany Deports contributed to making the practice of deportations known to the general public. The initiative no man is illegal (kmii) used the film when it called for a day without deportations on August 30, 2008 with protest actions against deportations: In the run-up to an appeal, this film was shown in some pubs in Cologne.

The left-liberal German daily Frankfurter Rundschau on May 11, 2006 headlined a review of the film with the quote from a neighbor who witnessed a nightly deportation: “Are we Hitler's time again?” The film offers a new contribution to the question of whether the laws that regulate the deportation and their execution are in order.

The Frankfurter Rundschau also writes about the film: “This WDR documentary about the German deportation practice does not deliberately discuss the pros and cons. The authors […] make it clear from the start that they consider the state's treatment of these people to be a scandal. ” After that, the film could be classified in the field of opinion journalism. Volker Mazassek , however, is of the opinion that journalism has the task of questioning the functionality of a constitutional state: “ From interested parties, the committed contribution is certainly dismissed as campaign journalism, because the authorities only do what they are legally obliged to do. But this argument is banal. One can ask whether these laws and their implementation are in order. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PHOENIX broadcast schedule for Wednesday, June 7th, 2006. In: www.presseportal.de. June 7, 2006, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ PHOENIX broadcast plan Thursday, June 8, 2006. In: www.presseportal.de. June 6, 2006, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Andrea Naica-Loebell: Fortification walls against immigrants. In: Telepolis. June 20, 2006, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Decentralized day of action without deportations. In: kmii-koeln.de. July 15, 2008, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ August 30, 2008 - day without deportations. In: kmii-koeln.de. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ May 11, 2006 - Frankfurter Rundschau: "Are we back in Hitlerite?" , initiative- gegen- Abschiebehaft.de, accessed on February 16, 2019
  7. ↑ a b Volker Mazassek: Systematic hardship - How Germany deports. sagamedia, accessed February 16, 2019 .