Jeremiah Duggan

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Jeremiah Duggan

Jeremiah Duggan (born November 10, 1980 in London , † March 27, 2003 in Wiesbaden ) was a British student at the Sorbonne in Paris . He died under unexplained circumstances after taking part in a "cadre training" in Wiesbaden at the Schiller Institute , which belongs to the network of the right-wing and anti-Semitic so-called LaRouche movement around Lyndon LaRouche and whose European headquarters are in Wiesbaden.

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Duggan was hit by two cars in an industrial park on federal highway 455 , rolled over and is said to have died. Police and prosecutors came to the conclusion that Duggan's death was a suicide . Based on their research, his family assumed that their son was killed or driven to his death by members of the LaRouche movement. At the end of 2012, the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court ordered the investigation to be restarted. In May 2015, after a forensic investigation , a British court came to the conclusion that suicide was not the cause of death. Since 20 January 2019, a is Ermittlungserzwingungsverfahren the higher court pending. The outcome is open (as of February 22, 2019).

Life

Jeremiah Joseph Duggan was born on November 10, 1980, the first child of Hugo and Erica Duggan in London. The father grew up in Dublin, the mother, the daughter of a German Holocaust survivor, came from South Africa . Jeremiah had two sisters. When he was seven years old, his parents divorced. After finishing school, Duggan spent some time in India and Israel , where he worked as a youth group leader. In September 2001 he moved to Paris to study English and French at the Sorbonne and the British Institute. After September 11, 2001 , Jeremiah Duggan began to be interested in politics, he protested against the US war effort in Iraq.

prehistory

Duggan's entry into the LaRouche movement

In early 2003, Duggan came into contact with a LaRouche activist, Benoit Chalifoux, who was also the author of LaRouche's Nouvelle Solidarité magazine . This invited Duggan to a three-day so-called anti-war conference of the Schiller Institute in Bad Schwalbach near Wiesbaden. Duggan asked his mother to do some research on the internet for the organizers, but she couldn't find anything due to a typo. On March 21, 2003, Duggan and Chalifoux traveled to Wiesbaden with eight other LaRouche members. Duggan was housed there together with Sébastien Drochon and Jean-Adrien, two LaRouche members, in an apartment that belonged to the directors of the Schiller Institute, Rainer and Ursula Apel.

The conference in Wiesbaden

Lyndon LaRouche was the keynote speaker at the conference. He spoke on the eighth day of the Iraq war, and the Washington Post described the mood at the conference as apocalyptic. LaRouche is said to have called George W. Bush an incorrigible drinker. He claimed Woodrow Wilson founded the Ku Klux Klan from the White House and that John F. Kennedy was killed in an internal American operation. He also said the US would use the Iraq war to start a world war. There is a worldwide conspiracy that is supported by people “who love Hitler and admire Nietzsche . But as Jews they could not qualify for leadership positions in the Nazi party, even though their fascism was absolutely pure. Just as extreme as with Hitler! They sent them to the USA ... “These backers of the world conspiracy are the same who brought Hitler to power in the 1930s. In addition, they are "slime molds" involved in the independent central banking system.

In 2004, Aglaja Beyes-Corleis, who left the movement in the 1990s after 16 years of membership, told the BBC that people were being dragged into the movement against their will and were being put under immense psychological pressure at conferences. She herself was “completely freaked out” at conferences like many other members.

Youth squad training

After the conference, Duggan and 50 other young people decided to stay for a LaRouche youth cadre training at a youth hostel in Wiesbaden. Benoit Chalifoux, the recruiter who had accompanied him to Germany, returned to Paris. According to a Washington Post report , Duggan stood out because he was both British and Jewish. Aglaja Beyes-Corleis, who dropped out, told the BBC that Jewish members were particularly pressured at meetings. The London Metropolitan Police , which was investigating the Duggan case, found that the movement and the Schiller Institute viewed Jews as responsible for the Iraq war. Jeremiah Duggan's conference notes also demonstrate the anti-Semitic influence of the LaRouche ideology.

Duggan's mother reported that Dr. Jonathan Tenenbaum, the scientific advisor to the Schiller Institute, told her after the death of her son that Duggan got up during class and said “I am a Jew” when the Jews were blamed for the war. One participant said that as a result, Duggan was grinded by the others.

Journalist Witt writes in an article that Duggan may also have been pressured for telling others about his treatment at the Tavistock Psychiatric Clinic . Duggan attended family therapy sessions there as a child after the parents separated. The LaRouche movement believes this clinic is a brainwashing center run by British intelligence. According to Duggan's notes, at least one participant at the conference said so. Jeffrey Steinberg, security director of the LaRouche movement, also referred to his treatment in the clinic in a text about Duggan's death in 2004. The Tavistock Clinic has long conducted radical experiments on individual manipulation and mass manipulation, Steinberg claims.

The journalist Frank Nordhausen wrote in the Berliner Zeitung that Duggan might have been unlucky enough to have several qualities that the LaRouche security department always warned about: Jeremiah Duggan was British, a Jew, and he was also connected to a so-called psychological institute .

Jeremiah Duggan's death

Phone calls

On the evening of March 25th, two days before his death, Duggan had actually wanted to meet his French friend Maya in Paris. But he called her that Tuesday and said he didn't have enough money for the trip and that there was no lift before Sunday. He said very serious things were going to happen and he would explain them when he returned. On March 26th, he went to Frankfurt with some LaRouche supporters to distribute LaRouche literature on the street. They later visited the Rembrandt Collection in the Städel Museum . When a LaRouche supporter asked him what he thought of it, he began to sob and said several times that he did not trust LaRouche. She said he was free to go, he hugged her and seemed to feel more secure again.

Rainer Apel, the head of the Schiller Institute, in whose apartment Duggan and the French Sébastien Drochon (a later employee of the French LaRouche organization Nouvelle Solidarité ) were staying , told the Sunday Times that the two had returned to the house around midnight. They didn't have a key, Apel had to open the door for them. Drochon later told the police that Duggan was restless and compulsively turned off the lights. He said he was afraid of losing his hair, that he was unable to trust LaRouche and that he felt like he was trapped.

Around 4 a.m. (March 27), Duggan borrowed Drochon's cell phone to call Maya again. Maya reported that he looked very upset. He told her that he no longer knew what was reality, what was true and what was a lie. He spoke of experiments with computers and magnetic waves. Maya asked him to take the next train to Paris immediately. The BBC she later said: "The first thing he told me was that he would be under extreme pressure. He spoke very softly. He said they were doing computer experiments on people. The way he talked he looked very upset. He couldn't formulate complete sentences. I asked him who was doing these experiments and he said it was the government. He said they caused a lot of pain in people's arms and legs. I tried to find out where he was, but he didn't tell me. "

According to Drochon, after he called Maya, Duggan called his mother, Erica Duggan, then ran out of the house at 5:15 a.m. It is unclear whether he used the same cell phone for his calls to his mother and whether they were made immediately after calling Maya. Erica Duggan told the BBC the first call came at 4:24 p.m. She couldn't sleep and would have sat in the kitchen with a cup of tea. "Jeremiah said, 'Mum, I'm in ... big trouble ... do you know the Nouvelle Solidarité ?' He said I can't do this, I want out. The line was cut, then he called again and kept saying 'Mum, I'm scared!' I realized he was in such danger that I told him I love him. And then he said, 'I want to see you. Now.' He said he was in Wiesbaden. When I asked how to spell this he started to spell 'W I E S'. Then the line was dead. "

Drochon said after the phone call, Duggan asked "Why did you choose me?" He said he wanted to go get cigarettes. Drochon offered to accompany him. On the way out, Duggan accidentally pressed the doorbell while looking for the light switch. Drochon said he reacted in a panic to the noise and ran away. He still ran after him, but was unable to catch up with him. He then informed the director of the Schiller Institute, Ortrun Cramer, that Duggan had left the house.

How Jeremiah Duggan was killed

Around six o'clock, 45 minutes later, a BMW driver saw Duggan walking onto Berliner Strasse, Bundesstrasse 455 , a two-lane country road in the Wiesbaden suburb of Erbenheim . The place where he was later found is about five kilometers from the apartment in which he lived. The driver brushed Duggan with the wing mirror, causing him to fall. But Duggan got up and ran ten minutes farther out of town in the direction of the oncoming traffic. Then he was hit again by a car.

The driver of the second car, a red Peugeot, said Duggan jumped in front of his car with his arms raised and his mouth open. In the impact, the windshield and a side window were smashed. Duggan was thrown into the path of a third car, a blue Golf. The Gulf rolled over Duggan.

Immediate response

Minutes after Jeremiah Duggan's second call, his mother called the UK 911 and was referred to the local police station in Colindale, Barnet . She told police her son was in danger and was put through to the London Metropolitan Police headquarters at Scotland Yard. When she said her son had problems with the Nouvelle Solidarité , the officials had no idea what she meant. She called Jeremiah's friend Maya. She reported that Drochon had called her to ask if she had heard from Jeremiah because he had left the house. According to the investigations, this call was made at 7:40 a.m.

Erica Duggan got Drochon's phone number from Maya and called him. First he hung up, but on the second call he passed it on to Ortrud Cramer. There was screaming in the background, but it stopped when Cramer said "The mother". According to an article in the Independent , Cramer Duggan's mother said the LaRouche organization was a news agency. “We cannot take responsibility for the actions of individuals. We think her son has mental health problems. ”She will call the local hospitals to see if Duggan has been admitted there.

The phone recordings show the call ended at 11:07 a.m. Three minutes later, Cramer, Drochon and another LaRouche activist are said to have come to a police station in Wiesbaden with Duggan's passport, bag and backpack, according to a Telegraph report. However, other reports say that Cramer first contacted the police by phone. Cramer told the Independent in 2004: “Based on the conversations he had with others, I believed that he had mental health problems. I don't know what happened the night he died, but the Schiller Institute played no role in his death. "

A LaRouche member named Giselle said members of the cadre training had been called to a meeting at the local LaRouche office the next day. According to the Sunday Times , Helga Zepp-LaRouche was also there. The first person to speak at the meeting was Jean-Gabriel Maheo, a LaRouche recruiter from Paris. He told those in attendance that Duggan had been to the Travistock Clinic, which made it appear he had been there recently. Zepp-LaRouche told the gathering that Duggan was an agent sent from London to harm the LaRouche movement.

Investigations

First adoption suicide

Three hours after Duggan's death, the Wiesbaden police found it had been a suicide. LaRouche officials reportedly told them that Duggan had been a psychiatric patient and had shown suicidal tendencies. An autopsy was not performed in Germany. The Wiesbaden public prosecutor closed the investigation after three months.

Forensic investigation

On March 31, 2003, Duggan's body was transferred to England for a forensic examination. The doctors found severe head injuries that had occurred in the collision with the car. Duggan's mother Erica questioned this thesis and, as part of her “Justice for Jeremiah” campaign launched in April 2004, commissioned six forensic experts to re-examine the photos and reports of Duggan's death. One of the experts discovered bruises on Jeremiah Duggan's hands and arms that could have been defensive injuries. According to Die Zeit , a forensic crime scene analyst stated: "I am convinced that this accident is staged, that the death of Jeremiah Duggan took place elsewhere and that his body was then (...) brought into this position."

First investigation enforcement proceedings

Duggan's parents arrived in a Ermittlungserzwingungsverfahren on 14 December 2012, an order in which the higher court ordered the inclusion of further investigation by the prosecutor's office. There is an initial suspicion of bodily harm resulting in death . In 2015, a court in London concluded that Jeremiah Duggan's body had "a number of unexplained injuries" that could not have resulted from the fatal collisions with the cars. It was investigated against two LaRouche members, a French and a German. The investigation lasted five years, and the process was on 26 February 2018 the second time, again without result set .

Second compulsory investigation

On the other hand, Erica Duggan, represented by her lawyers Kaya and Noll, lodged a complaint because key issues had not yet been clarified. It is still unclear who hunted and beaten Jeremiah and where he spent the last night. The complaint was rejected, so that a second application for compulsory investigation was submitted to the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court on January 20, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthew Taylor: Jeremiah Duggan's death not a suicide, British coroner rules. In: The Guardian. May 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ Jochen Wittmann: The death of a British man in Germany becomes a mystery. In: The Standard. May 21, 2015.
  3. ^ Serdar Kaya, press release
  4. ↑ a b c d e David James Smith: Motorway madness. In: The Sunday Times . July 18, 2004, archived from the original on June 5, 2011 ; accessed on May 1, 2019 (English).
  5. ↑ JUSTICE FOR JEREMIAH CAMPAIGN UPDATE. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  6. ^ The lost boy. In: The Independent . August 18, 2003, archived from the original on May 18, 2011 ; accessed on May 2, 2019 .
  7. ^ April Witt: No Joke. In: Washington Post . October 24, 2004, p. 2 , accessed on May 1, 2019 (English, page 2 of 5 of the article, third to last paragraph below).
  8. ↑ Jerome Taylor: Mystery of dead Briton and the right-wing cult. In: www.independent.co.uk. Independent News & Media, February 27, 2010, accessed on February 21, 2020 : “He was angry about the upcoming war and wanted to do something about it. But he was also excited because he was beginning to learn about politics. "
  9. ↑ a b c April Witt: No Joke. In: Washington Post . October 24, 2004, p. 2 , accessed on May 1, 2019 (English, page 2 of 5 of the article, last paragraph at the bottom).
  10. ↑ Jochen Wittmann: The death of a British man in Germany becomes a mystery. In: The Standard . May 21, 2015, accessed May 1, 2019 .
  11. ^ April Witt: No Joke. In: Washington Post . October 24, 2004, p. 4 , accessed on May 1, 2019 (English, page 4 of 5 of the article, section "The conference was sponsored by the Schiller Institute ...").
  12. ^ April Witt: No Joke. In: The Washington Post. October 24, 2004, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Tim Samuels: Jeremiah Duggan's death and Lyndon LaRouche. In: BBC News. 12 February 2004, at 00:42 mins for Beyes-Corleis saying people were drawn into it without really wanting to be; from 3:00 mins for her 16 years with the Institute, and her description of the behavior at conferences.
  14. ↑ For the interview with Beyes-Corleis, see Tim Samuels: Jeremiah Duggan's death and Lyndon LaRouche. In: BBC News. February 12, 2004, at 3:33 mins.
  15. ↑ Terry Kirby: The Lost Boy. ( Memento of May 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Independent. August 28, 2003.
  16. ^ A b Frank Nordhausen: Investigations of a mother. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 19, 2014.
  17. ^ April Witt: No Joke. In: The Washington Post. October 24, 2004, p. 5.
  18. ↑ BBC Newsnight , February 12, 2004; available on YouTube ; the interview with Maya begins at part 1m 5:10 mins , and continues part 2 at 00:00 mins .
  19. ↑ BBC Newsnight , February 12, 2004; available on YouTube , part 2, 02:08 mins .
    • According to Greenwichmeantime.com , on 27 March 2003, Britain was on GMT, and France and Germany were on Central European Standard Time, GMT + 1.
  20. ^ BBC Newsnight , February 12, 2004; available on YouTube , part 2, 2:00 mins .
  21. ↑ David James Smith: Motorway madness. In: The Sunday Times. July 18, 2004.
  22. ^ Coroner's Court transcript ( Memento of December 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), The Justice for Jeremiah Campaign .
  23. ^ Daniel Foggo: German police probe into British student's death was 'inadequate'. ( Memento of April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Daily Telegraph. November 9, 2003.
  24. ^ Daniel Müller: Why did Jeremiah die? In: Die Zeit , No. 45/2015.
  25. ↑ Steven Geyer: How did Jeremiah Duggan die? In: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 1, 2015, accessed April 11, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Andreas Wassermann: Mysterious Death of a Briton: Political sect is said to have incited students to their death. In: Spiegel Online. June 29, 2015, accessed April 11, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Daniel Zylbersztajn: Revision of a death. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. June 1, 2015, accessed April 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Duggan, Jeremiah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British student
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2003
Place of death Wiesbaden