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[[file:G20 Hamburg Achidi-John-Platz.png|thumb|Inofficial street sign of the ''Achidi John Square'' near [[Rote Flora]]]]

Achidi John's death occurred on December 12, 2001 in Hamburg. Achidi John died of a combination of a serious heart defect, cocaine use and the stress of emetics. Four days earlier, Achidi John had been forcibly administered an emetic to secure evidence of suspected drug trafficking against him.
Achidi John's death occurred on December 12, 2001 in Hamburg. Achidi John died of a combination of a serious heart defect, cocaine use and the stress of emetics. Four days earlier, Achidi John had been forcibly administered an emetic to secure evidence of suspected drug trafficking against him.
At the political level, the case led to the administration of emetics in Berlin and Lower Saxony being stopped.
At the political level, the case led to the administration of emetics in Berlin and Lower Saxony being stopped.

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Inofficial street sign of the Achidi John Square near Rote Flora

Achidi John's death occurred on December 12, 2001 in Hamburg. Achidi John died of a combination of a serious heart defect, cocaine use and the stress of emetics. Four days earlier, Achidi John had been forcibly administered an emetic to secure evidence of suspected drug trafficking against him. At the political level, the case led to the administration of emetics in Berlin and Lower Saxony being stopped. [1] In Bremen, the Greens applied to end the practice of using emetics. The application was rejected. [2] Bremen stopped the use of emetics in 2005 after the similar death of Laya-Alama Condé. In commemoration of the case, the place in front of the Rote Flora is called in the left-hand scene and colloquially also called Achidi-John-Platz. [3]

Prehistory

In July 2000, the Nigerian Michael Paul Nwabuisi [4] applied for asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany in Jena. He pretended to be a Cameroonian citizen with the name "Achidi John", born on January 6, 1982. The authorities assigned Achidi John to shared accommodation in Ellrich in September 2000. In the asylum procedure, Achidi John stated, among other things, that he had threatened death as a human sacrifice in Cameroon and that he had come directly to Hamburg on a ship when he escaped. In January 2001, the asylum application was rejected as unfounded because the alleged information from Achidi John could not be confirmed. [5]

In the following time Achidi John was arrested five times by the Hamburg police for suspected drug trafficking; but since the trade could not be proven to him, he was released each time. [5]

Use of emetics against Achidi John

On the morning of December 8, 2001, the 19-year-old was picked up by civil investigators in the St. Georg district "on suspicion of drug trafficking [...] and immediately taken to the forensic medicine department at Eppendorf University Hospital (UKE)" [6] . He fiercely opposed the introduction of a nasogastric tube to introduce the emetic ipecacuanha, upon which he was restrained. John was then "forcibly injected through a tube into his nose" by a doctor. [7] [8] "An anesthesiologist for emergencies was not called for help." [6] Then "he fell to the ground" [6] "the color of his face had changed, breathing and pulse had stopped." [6] After three minutes, two teams of emergency doctors tried unsuccessful in resuscitating John. [1] John died on December 12, 2001. [9]

In the intensive care unit, Achidi John had 41 bullets of crack and cocaine removed from the gastrointestinal tract. During the autopsy, four more balls of drugs were found in his intestines. [5]

Achidi John's autopsy was carried out on December 13, 2001 by the Forensic Medicine Institute of the Free University of Berlin. According to the autopsy report, a combination of a serious heart defect, the use of cocaine and the stress of administering emetics led to the death of Achidi John. [5]

Judical responses

The public prosecutor closed a preliminary investigation against those involved in the use of emetics in June 2002. A subsequent enforcement procedure by Achidi John's father was rejected by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in July 2003. [9] [10] [11]

The Federal Constitutional Court issued a press release the day after Achidi John's death. It pointed out that up to this point in time there had been no decision on whether the administration of so-called emetics was compatible with the constitution. Only in 1999 a constitutional complaint was not accepted for decision because of the principle of subsidiarity. It was stated that "the use of emetics [...] with regard to human dignity [...] and freedom from self-incriminations [...] does not [meet] any fundamental constitutional concerns". An assessment with regard to the "protection of physical integrity [...] and the proportionality of the interference" was not made. [12] The compulsory use of emetics to protect against ingested drugs was introduced in 2001 by the then red-green Senate in Hamburg. [13] A few days before John's death, the coalition of the CDU, FDP and the Rule of Law Party significantly lowered the requirements for the use of emetics. [14] In 2006, Germany was sentenced by the European Court of Human Rights to compensation of 10,000 euros for the use of emetics for violating the prohibition of torture and inhumane treatment. [15] [16] [17]

References

  1. ^ a b Marco Carini (2002-02-14). "Verschlusssache Brechmitteltod". taz. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  2. ^ Jean-Philipp Baeck (2013-09-16). "Keine Entschuldigung für die Folter". taz. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  3. ^ Philip Volkmann-Schluck (2011-04-30). "Von Flora-Kreisläufen und Monarchie-Spektakeln". Hamburger Abendblatt. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  4. ^ Ove Sutter (2005-01-19). "Scheitern als Schanze". Jungle World. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  5. ^ a b c d Johannes Schweikle (2012-08). "Dealen. Tod eines Drogenhändlers". Greenpeace Magazin. Archived from the original on 2017-08-27. Retrieved 2017-08-27. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b c d Kai von Appen (2010-04-30). "Der Tod des Achidi John". taz. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  7. ^ Gernot Knödler (2015-10-27). "Der Monopolist des Todes". taz. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  8. ^ Fredrik Roggan (2002-01). "Tödlicher Brechmitteleinsatz in Hamburg". Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP. Retrieved 2016-06-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ a b Elke Spanner (2002-12-07). "Zwischenfall ohne Folgen". taz. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  10. ^ ""Tod des 19jährigen Achidi J. nach Brechmitteleinsatz ", AZ: 2 Ws 31/03". Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht. 2003-07-31. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  11. ^ Kai von Appen (2006-07-13). "Zu spät für die Toten". taz. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
  12. ^ ""Zum Brechmittel-Einsatz", Pressemitteilung Nr. 116/2001". Bundesverfassungsgericht. 2001-12-13. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
  13. ^ Alexandra Hilpert (2021-09-15), "Hamburger Folteropfer Achidi John: Verdrängt und vergessen", Die Tageszeitung: taz, ISSN 0931-9085, retrieved 2021-09-19
  14. ^ "Todesstrafe durch die Hintertür". Der Freitag. 2001-12-21. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  15. ^ "Deutschland hat gegen das Folterverbot verstoßen". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 2006-07-11. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  16. ^ Christian Rath (2006-07-12). "Kotzen ist Menschenrecht". taz. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  17. ^ "Rechtssache J. gegen DEUTSCHLAND (Individualbeschwerde Nr. 54810/00)". bmjv.de. Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz. 2006-07-11. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
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