A confusing death notice

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A confusing death notice

The Facebook entry about the death of a refugee in Berlin alerted helpers, authorities, and media in Berlin. But is the story true? Doubts are increasing.

It begins with a dramatic log on to Facebook. A committed Berliner Flüchtlingshelfer reported a well-Known, that he was in a feverish 24 year olds with Syrians in the ambulance to the hospital accompany. A little later shares the same man with: “He is just dead.”

The volunteers called Dirk Voltz and brings for months, young people in his apartment before the registration authority for refugees, “Lageso, in Berlin-Moabit, and the least were in the belly, sometimes in the freezing cold. The newspaper “The world” was dedicated to him in the last autumn of a long post.

For the Initiative “Moabit” is the Voltz reported death of that refugee, he temporarily shelter granted, therefore, absolutely believable: “We trust
Dirk Voltz
“says the spokesperson for the Initiative, Diana Henniges, many hours later, as the doubts about the veracity of the described events grow. For in the meantime, for the “Lageso” (state office for health and social Affairs), the competent Berlin social Senator Mario Czaja for fire-fighters, police and hospitals to investigate, whether there is a case of death under the circumstances described give. Without A Result.

No rescue mission documented

The spokesman for the Berlin fire brigade said, you have now the applications of the ambulance in question period between 21.00 and 5.00 o’clock in the morning checked and could not find anything. It could be excluded that a Syrian refugee in an ambulance or in a hospital had died, it is from the Berlin town hall.

The only light in the Darkness might bring, namely Flüchtlingshelfer Dirk Voltz, is not to speak. He open his apartment door not and wanted to have his peace, explains Diana Henniges in front of the now numerous assembled media in the “Lageso”. Helplessness first, then the suspicion that the story is fictitious.

Terrible Game?

“If someone with so little plays, that would be terrible,” says Henniges. For you and the other volunteers would be “a disaster”. For now, the case has in the media and social networks high waves struck, authorities in Panic, puts, politicians have “deeply affected” is expressed. The credibility of the “Moabit” is on the game.

Immediately after receiving the message had the Initiative as the cause of the death of the refugee, a failure of the authorities, identified: “We have to assume that death is a consequence of the conditions on the Lageso is,” it said. What is meant is, that refugees are still several days for your registration, a place to sleep or a sick note have to queue. Also, the young Syrian was the Wait in the cold leached’ve been a flu-like infection brought the not been treated. Although there are in the “Lageso” a medical care by Doctors from the Berlin Charité, but this was not enough, it says in “Moabit”.

Real are the grievances

Also, complain refugees since a long time that you money will not be paid on time and that they thus do not have enough food shopping could. Of the “starving refugees” is even the talk of what Berlin social Senator Czaja decided DISCLAIMED. He always has admitted that there is “significant bottlenecks” in payment of services provided to the refugees to come. To blame are the high crowds and the high rate of Absenteeism among the employees of the office. Although the boss of the office are replaced, nevertheless it remained between Christmas and new year, closed in January, were formed after huge snakes. Again and again, complain refugees Abuses of private security guards. The Situation in Berlin is now regarded as a deterring example for German welcome.

For the dedicated helpers of the “Moabit” is the Medienandrang because of the alleged death of one of their protégés the opportunity, once again, to the grievances. But the damage would be, everything should, as a false turn out to be much larger.