Sami A.

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Sami Ben Mohamed A. (* 1976 in El Hamma , Tunisia ) is a Salafist preacher and alleged former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden . He gained public notoriety through his deportation from Germany - an official measure that was condemned on August 15, 2018 by the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as "obviously illegal". The obligation to return from Tunisia resulting from the illegality could not be fulfilled due to the investigations there and the passport confiscated. In November the Gelsenkirchen Administrative Court lifted the temporary ban on deportation and thus the obligation to repatriate after a declaration by the Tunisian authorities that A. was not at risk of torture in his home country. He was represented by Seda Başay-Yıldız .

live in Germany

Study visit

In September 1997, at the age of 21, Sami A. came to Germany to study. In the following period, he was granted residence permits based on the Aliens Act, which was in effect until the end of 2004, due to his studies . These residence permits were regularly extended. For the 1997/1998 winter semester, Sami A. enrolled at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld , initially for textile technology . Later he moved to Cologne to study technical computer science , then electrical engineering . On October 25, 2004 A. received a residence permit from the city of Cologne for the last time to study, which should be valid until October 25, 2005.

On January 14, 2005 A. reported to the area of ​​responsibility of the city of Bochum and applied for an extension of the residence permit on October 24, 2005. He presented a certificate of enrollment according to which he was enrolled in the 8th semester in the electrical engineering course at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. He had definitely failed the technical computer science course; However, four semesters of this course were credited to the electrical engineering course. But even in the subject of electrical engineering, he failed to succeed and he finally dropped out of university without a degree.

Journey to the Middle East

Sami A. was called to witness the criminal case against members of the Al-Tawhid terrorist group in 2004/2005. During the trial, the chief witness of the Federal Prosecutor's Office in this case - Shadi Moh'd Mustafa Abdalla - reported that he was from Germany from December 1999 to June 2000 together with four other supporters of the Sunni- Islamic movement Tablighi Jamaat - among them Sami A. from first traveled to Saudi Arabia . Sami A. and he then traveled on to Karachi / Pakistan , then via Quetta in western Pakistan to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan . There Sami A. had been trained militarily and ideologically in an al-Qaida training camp operated by Osama bin Laden and was subsequently even promoted to the life guard of Osama bin Laden. In this camp A. u. a. met with Ramzi Binalshibh , who is considered one of the planners and organizers of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , and was warmly welcomed by him. Sami A. was also in the al-Qaida district with the later Djerba assassin Christian Ganczarski , as well as Abu Dhess, who later in the second Al-Tawhid trial (in which Sami A. then testified / see above) because of his membership in of a terrorist group who would be sentenced to eight years imprisonment with gang-like preparation of forgery of official ID cards.

The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court considered the testimony of the key witness to be credible - despite Sami A.'s assurances that it was just a harmless pilgrimage, that he had never set foot in Afghanistan and that he only stayed in mosques in the Pakistani city of Karachi until his return Court appeared doubtful due to lack of details and witnesses.

Salafist preacher

Back in Germany, Sami A. worked as a Salafist preacher and campaigned for the establishment of an Islamic state of God until the beginning of 2004 in Cologne. When the cathedral city no longer extended his residence permit at the beginning of 2004, he settled in Bochum , where he lived with his family until his deportation in 2018.

He began to preach under the name "Abu al-Moujtaba" or "Abu Mujtaba" in houses of prayer, closed internet forums, sometimes also in Bochum's city park , to radicalize young Muslims and to recruit them for jihad . Among other things, he planned to open his own mosque in Bochum, and expanded his agitation activities to include the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Since around 2004 it has come under the protection of the constitution. The President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia, Burkhard Freier , declared: "We classify Sami A. as a dangerous preacher". The North Rhine-Westphalian security authorities classified Sami A. as a “religious authority” who was held in high regard by many young Muslims and posed a “general danger”. The then Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Ralf Jäger (SPD) declared in 2012: "We have clear indications that he is trying to radicalize young people with his extremist ideas". For young Muslims, the preacher is a “religious authority” who works “exemplary” - not least thanks to “his military training in an al-Qaeda camp” (sic!). Other Salafists could try to "emulate" him.

According to the Federal Prosecutor's office , Sami A. was responsible, among other things, for the radicalization of two members of the Düsseldorf al-Qaida cell . The 21-year-old Amid C. from Bochum and the 28-year-old Halil S. from Gelsenkirchen then received the ideological tools for a bomb attack in Germany from him. According to the LKA NRW, the two brothers Ömer and Yusuf D. from Herne also came from the vicinity of the Bochum preacher. Both are said to have found their way into jihad through the Tunisians. As IS terrorists, both died in US air strikes in Syria at the end of October 2017 .

Contacts with Abu Walaa

In the recent past, Sami A. also had close contacts with Abu Walaa , the alleged governor of the terrorist organization Islamic State in Germany. This was proven by investigation files that were available to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. At the end of December 2015, A. invited the hate preacher from Hildesheim, who had been imprisoned in November 2016, to a karate school in Bochum for dinner and a visit to the sauna.

International contacts with Islamist organizations

The WAZ group reported that A. was networked with members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network worldwide - including terrorists who were assigned leading roles in the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the USA and the holiday island of Djerba in 2002 .

Deportation attempts and asylum applications

First attempt at expulsion from Germany (2006)

In response to a notification from the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, the mayor of the city of Bochum, Sami A., issued an order of March 10, 2006, which was declared immediately enforceable, among other things for supporting an association that supports terrorism and endangering the free democratic basic order in accordance with Section 54 No. 5 and 5a Residence Act (AufenthG) permanently out of the federal territory and at the same time refused to extend his residence permit. He was threatened with deportation to Tunisia.

In the justification for the administrative order, it was stated that it was considered proven that Sami A. had completed military training in an al-Qaeda camp and maintained close personal contacts with leading figures in this terrorist group as well as with other militant Islamist milieu or still care - especially for a person who is suspected of being involved in the attack on the Al-Ghriba synagogue on Djerba in 2002.

In addition, A's membership in the Al-Nahda movement was established, which is suspected of promoting international terrorism at least indirectly through its network-like structures and of preparing the intellectual breeding ground for the recruitment of jihad fighters through the strict religious guidance of the members .

Sami A's passport was confiscated and he was obliged to report to the responsible police station in Bochum once a day.

Objection to expulsion

Sami A. appealed against the decision of the city of Bochum and applied for preliminary legal protection at the administrative court in Gelsenkirchen. The VG Gelsenkirchen, however, rejected the application with a resolution of April 10, 2006 - (Ref .: 8 L 409/06). The complaint against this decision was also rejected by the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster with a decision of October 22, 2007 - (Ref .: 17 B 669/06).

Preliminary proceedings of the Federal Public Prosecutor

At the end of March 2006, the Federal Public Prosecutor opened an investigation against Sami A. on suspicion of membership in a foreign terrorist organization (GBA 2 Bjs 13 / 06-4). However, the evidence against Sami A. was not sufficient for an indictment, and the Federal Public Prosecutor closed the investigation on May 16, 2007 for lack of evidence. An indictment of membership or support in a terrorist organization abroad - § 129b StGB - could not be prosecuted, as this only came into force in 2002 (prohibition of retroactive effects in criminal law). And evidence of the crime for the period from August 30, 2002 to May 16, 2007, during which Sami A. was in Germany, could not be provided by the Attorney General. In a note, however, the GBA stated that the suspicion of the accused being a member of the foreign terrorist organization al-Qaeda could not (although) be substantiated by the numerous investigative measures, but had not been (completely) eliminated.

application for asylum

As a precautionary measure , Sami A. submitted an application for asylum to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) on April 10, 2006 . In the reason for his asylum application, he stated that the findings in the judgment of the OVG Düsseldorf of October 26, 2005 (2nd Al-Tawhid trial / see above), which referred to him, were partly overrated and partly misinterpreted. He had never been to Afghanistan and did not take part in an Al-Qaeda training camp, but instead stayed exclusively in Pakistan on the pilgrimage that began in December 1999, where he attended daily meetings and courses for his fellow believers. The contacts with the Islamist milieu held up against him actually do not exist. He is against terrorism.

Under no circumstances could he return to his homeland. If he were deported on the condition that he supported or supported a terrorist organization in Germany, there was a risk that he would be arrested after his arrival. This applies both in the event of a deportation and in the event of a voluntary return, since the secret services have meanwhile exchanged their findings internationally and the investigative proceedings of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (which were still ongoing at the time) because of membership of a terrorist organization are known to the Tunisian authorities. In Tunisia, torture and ill-treatment of prisoners are the order of the day. The conditions of detention are unreasonable. There are unexplained deaths in the prisons. The lawsuits fell far short of the international standard for a fair trial. People who are suspected of belonging to Islamist organizations are particularly persecuted. The danger is heightened by the fact that the German authorities put him in touch with suspects in the case of the attack on the synagogue in Djerba, that his father was a member of Al-Nahda and for this reason for half a year in the 1980s had been imprisoned. After all, he himself had contact with a large number of people in Germany who had received asylum as members of Al-Nahda.

BAMF decision 2007 - Rejection of the asylum application

However, by decision of September 27, 2007, the BAMF rejected the asylum application as unfounded and found that Sami A. obviously did not meet the requirements for being granted refugee status. In the opinion of the BAMF, there were also no bans on deportation under Section 60 (2) to (7) of the Residence Act. At the same time, the BAMF asked Sami A. to leave Germany within one week of the announcement of this decision under threat of deportation to Tunisia. In the justification it is stated: The granting of asylum and refugee protection is excluded for Sami A. according to Section 60, Paragraph 8, Sentence 1, AufenthG and Section 3, Paragraph 2, Sentence 1, No. 3 of the Asylum Act (AsylG). For serious reasons, Sami A. was to be viewed as a threat to the security of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Legal action against the BAMF decision and ban on deportation

On October 8, 2007, Sami A. brought an action against the BAMF's decision before the Düsseldorf Administrative Court. At the hearing on March 4, 2009, Sami A. partially withdrew the action against the BAMF. He renounced the enforcement of his right to asylum and the determination that he met the requirements for being granted refugee status. He only applied for it to be ascertained that in his case there were bans on deportation pursuant to Section 60 (2) and (5) of the Residence Act, as - in his opinion - he was threatened with torture and inhuman treatment in Tunisia. And with a judgment of March 4, 2009 (Az .: 11 K 4716 / 07.A), the administrative court ruled that Sami A. was not allowed to be deported to Tunisia, as there was a risk of “torture or inhuman or degrading” To be subjected to treatment or punishment. ”(Ban on deportation according to Section 60 Paragraphs 2 and 5 of the Residence Act). The court argued: “It is extremely likely that persons who the Tunisian authorities refer to in a qualified manner in connection with terrorist, in particular Islamist organizations or activities, will be interrogated on their return to Tunisia and tortured or tortured in order to obtain confessions or further information Inhuman or degrading treatment. ”In the opinion of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court, these requirements were met with regard to Sami A. and Tunisia. The threat of deportation in the above-mentioned BAMF decision was lifted (but only) to the extent that Tunisia was named as the country of destination for deportation. The main statements of this judgment were later confirmed by the Higher Administrative Court of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (OVG) in Münster.

BAMF decision 2010 - ban on deportation

Due to the above Judgments (VG Düsseldorf + OVG NRW) determined the BAMF with a decision of June 21, 2010 that Sami A. could not be returned to Tunisia.

Public Prosecutor's Office Düsseldorf (penalty order) (2007)

While Sami As's lawsuit against the BAMF decision was still in progress, at the request of the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor's Office, the Düsseldorf District Court initiated criminal proceedings against Sami A. at the end of 2007 for undecided false testimony as a witness in the 2nd Tawhid trial before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court. In the penalty order of November 1, 2007, it was stated that the plaintiff had been questioned during the main hearing before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in proceedings III - VI 13/03 on a trip that he and four other people had started in December 1999 and which ultimately led him to an Al-Qaeda military training camp in Afghanistan, and that he deliberately and untruthfully stated that he did not talk to one of the other witnesses in the above-mentioned at the end of 1999 / beginning of 2000 Process of being in Afghanistan. Sami A. lodged an objection against this penalty order and with the decision of the Düsseldorf District Court on August 10, 2009, the proceedings pursuant to Section 153a (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure were discontinued after A. had paid a requirement of 300 euros.

BAMF decision 2014 - Revocation of the ban on deportation

In a decision of July 17, 2014, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) revoked the finding that in the case of the plaintiff there was a ban on deportation to Tunisia according to Section 60 (2) Residence Act . The BAMF also found that subsidiary protection status according to Section 4 (1), sentence 2, nos. 1 and 3 AsylVfG was not granted and [also] there were no deportation bans under Section 60 (5) and (7) of the Residence Act. The reason given was that after the regime change in Tunisia as a result of the " Arab Spring " there was no longer any danger for Sami A. The regime in Tunisia at the time, from which the assumed risk of persecution had originated, no longer exists. [After violent public protests, Ben Ali left the country on January 14, 2011 and fled to Saudi Arabia]. A general or even systematic persecution of Salafists in Tunisia is not recognizable. Allegations of torture by the internal authorities are only occasionally asserted and then also prosecuted under disciplinary and criminal law. Occasional abuse by radical Salafists is reported. However, in the case of Sami A. these are "not very likely". According to the information obtained from the Foreign Office on November 11, 2013, no proceedings are pending against Sami A., according to the Tunisian authorities. There is also no search for him. This also applies to his family members. The granting of subsidiary protection would be contrary to the reasons for exclusion according to § 4 Paragraph 2 Clause 1 No. 3 and 4 AsylVfG.

deportation

According to a ruling by the Administrative Court of Gelsenkirchen on July 12, 2018 (Az. 7a L 1200 / 18.A), Sami A. could not be deported as long as Tunisia did not give a diplomatic note not to torture Sami A. there. On July 13th, Sami A. was deported from Germany by the authorities of the city of Bochum. Although the BAMF had known about the decision since 8:14 a.m., Sami A. was handed over to the Tunisian authorities an hour later. The North Rhine-Westphalian refugee minister Joachim Stamp declared on July 16 that the administrative court's decision was only made when Sami A. was "closer to his home country than to the Federal Republic". The deportation flight booked by the federal police cost around 35,000 euros. On July 13th, the Gelsenkirchen Administrative Court described the transfer to Tunisia as “a grossly illegal deportation measure”. The city of Bochum then appealed against the decision of the VG Gelsenkirchen to the Higher Administrative Court of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster.

On July 27, an examining magistrate in Tunis ordered A's release from custody. The investigators found no evidence of his involvement in terrorist activities. But it will continue to be investigated and A's passport was withheld. Sami A. was prohibited from leaving Tunisia for the duration of the proceedings.

On August 15, the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled that the Administrative Court of Gelsenkirchen had rightly obliged the city of Bochum to immediately return the Tunisian national Sami A. who had been deported to the Federal Republic of Germany at its own expense. The OVG considered the deportation to be “obviously illegal” and argued that it should not have been continued after the asylum suspension decision in proceedings 7a L 1200 / 18.A had been issued. The suspension decision had the effect that the ban on deportation, which was revoked by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) on June 20, 2018, should have been respected again due to the threat of torture.

Ricarda Brandts , President of the Higher Administrative Court, also criticized the authorities: "Here the borders of the rule of law were tested." The judgment is final and final. If the federal government were to get an assurance from Tunisia that Sami A. would not face torture in Tunisia, another deportation would be lawful.

Minister Joachim Stamp stated that he did not stop the deportation at the last minute out of concern that it would violate international law. With the newer knowledge he thinks the decision is wrong and regrets it. Had Sami A. been confronted with torture in Tunisia, he would have resigned without hesitation.

Threat of fines

By order of the Administrative Court of Gelsenkirchen on July 13, 2018, the city of Bochum was obliged to bring Sami A. back to the Federal Republic of Germany immediately at its own expense. By resolution of July 24 (8 L 1359/18), at the request of Sami A., she was threatened with a fine of 10,000 euros if she did not meet this obligation by July 31, 2018. The city of Bochum lodged a complaint with the OVG for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster against the threat of fines, which was rejected on July 31, as the city "has not yet made any efforts to meet the obligation to return it." August 2018, the administrative court of Gelsenkirchen set the fine of 10,000 euros and threatened another fine. The court judged the city's efforts to get Sami A. back to be insufficient.

Against these decisions of the Administrative Court of Gelsenkirchen, the city of Bochum lodged another appeal with the OVG. This decided on August 28, 2018 that the city of Bochum did not have to pay a fine. A flexion of the will of the city of Bochum is no longer necessary, because after the first-instance penalty payment was issued, it “did everything in its power to bring about the return of Sami A.”. She had "specifically given assurances that Sami A. would immediately be granted a residence permit and that she would ask the Foreign Office to issue an entry visa." The city could not be accused of not having tried to obtain a German travel document. In addition, Sami A. could not credibly demonstrate that he had fully exhausted the options available to him to obtain a valid Tunisian passport.

Removal of the obligation to return

In November 2018, the Gelsenkirchen Administrative Court lifted the temporary ban on deportation after the Tunisian authorities declared that A. was not at risk of torture in his home country. The diplomatic assurance is reliable "in view of the previous intensive exchange at the highest political and diplomatic level", also because the media's interest in the case and its political significance ensure "in particular the actual compliance with the assurance by the Tunisian authorities". On the other hand, statements by A. that he was tortured and treated inhumanely in Tunisia after his deportation are not credible. This meant that the city of Bochum was no longer required to retrieve them. In December, the administrative court also overturned the return order. The Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia rejected a complaint by Sami A. against the judgment in June 2019.

Private

Sami A. married a Tunisian woman in 2005. His wife and their first child, born in February 2007, were naturalized in Germany on January 26, 2010 while retaining their Tunisian citizenship. The other children born in September 2008, November 2009 and May 2014 are also German and Tunisian citizens. As the husband of a German and father of four children, Sami A. enjoyed additional protection from deportation.

further reading

  • Bin Laden's alleged ex-bodyguard: This is how the deportation of Sami A. In: Spiegel Online . July 16, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 16, 2018]).

Individual evidence

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  2. Administrative Court Gelsenkirchen: Judgment of March 24, 2011: Az .: 8 K 1859/10
  3. Administrative Court Düsseldorf: Judgment of March 4, 2009 (Az .: 11 K 4716/07. A)
  4. s. on this also the constitutional protection report of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for 2007, p. 97f.
  5. Administrative Court Düsseldorf: Judgment of March 4, 2009 - Az .: 11 K 4716/07. A.
  6. Administrative Court Düsseldorf: Judgment of March 4, 2009 - Az .: 11 K 4716/07. A (same judgment with less blackening)
  7. a b c d Bin Laden's ex-bodyguard is supposed to recruit terrorist workers in Bochum. WAZ, August 5, 2012
  8. ^ Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf: Judgment of October 26, 2005 - Az .: III VI 13/03
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  11. Islamism: "Should I be dangerous?" Die Zeit, July 14, 2016
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  21. Land sees Sami A. as a great danger - city of Bochum fails when expelled. Westfalenpost, August 7, 2012
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  31. Residence Act, Section 54
  32. Administrative Court Düsseldorf: Judgment of March 4, 2009 (Az .: 11 K 4716/07. A)
  33. Administrative Court Gelsenkirchen: judgment of March 24, 2011 (Az .: 8 K 1859/10; here section 4)
  34. s. to VG Gelsenkirchen - judgment of 24 March 2011 (Az .: 8 K 1859/10) and the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia - judgment of 15 April 2015 (Az .: 17 A 1245/11)
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  41. Residence Act, Section 60, Ban on Deportation
  42. ^ Residence Act - 2004 version - with amendments of August 28, 2007
  43. ^ Residence Act § 60 - Prohibition of deportation
  44. ^ Asylum Act (AsylG) § 3 - Granting refugee status
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  46. s. on this Administrative Court Gelsenkirchen - judgment of March 24, 2011 (Az .: 8 K 1859/10)
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  48. Administrative Court Düsseldorf: Judgment of March 4, 2009 (Az .: 11 K 4716/07. A)
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  51. ^ Administrative Court of Gelsenkirchen - judgment of March 24, 2011 (Az .: 8 K 1859/10)
  52. Residence Act (AufenthG) Section 60 Prohibition of deportation
  53. ^ Asylum Act (AsylG) § 4 Subsidiary protection
  54. Residence Act (AufenthG) Section 60 Prohibition of deportation
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