William Tonou-Mbobda

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William Tonou-Mbobda (* probably 1985 in Cameroon ; † April 26, 2019 in Hamburg ) was a Cameroonian living in Germany who died after being deployed by security forces in a Hamburg clinic. In 2009 he came to Hamburg from Cameroon to study engineering and business administration.

Tonou-Mbobda, who suffered from schizophrenia , went to the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) on his own initiative in April 2019 to receive psychiatric treatment there. On April 21, 2019, according to witnesses, Tonou-Mbobda smoked on a bench in front of the clinic when security forces forcibly restrained him and tried to take him back to the clinic. The Cameroonian lost consciousness, had to be reanimated and put into an artificial coma. Five days later he died of heart failure. According to the police, there was no court order to detain Tonou-Mbobda, so any coercive measures against him would not have been allowed.

The public prosecutor's office is investigating three members of the security service and the treating doctor on suspicion of bodily harm resulting in death. Relatives accused UKE employees of racism.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The unexplained death of William Tonou-Mbobda. In: Spiegel. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Racist police violence in Germany: Oury Jalloh was not an isolated incident. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Why did William Tonou-Mbobda have to die? In: The time. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Marthe Ruddat: Deadly compulsion. In: taz. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Long silence after death. In: taz. June 10, 2020, accessed June 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Memory of William Tonou-Mbobda. In: young world. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tonou-Mbobda, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian man
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Cameroon
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2019
Place of death Hamburg