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SUPPORT THE DEMANDS OF THE REFUGEES ON THE ROOF OF GERHARD-HAUPTMANN-SCHOOL

TO:
Frank Henkel, Senator for Internal Issues and Sports
Monika Herrmann, Disctrict Mayor Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Hans Panhoff, District councilor for Planning, Building, Environment and Real Estate
Dilek Kolat, Senator for Work, Women and Integration of the Federal State of Berlin

We are shocked about the approach towards the refugees, who have fought peacefully for their legitimate rights firstly at Oranienplatz and then also at Gerhard-Hauptmann-Schule.

Dilek Kolat, Senator for Work, Women and Integration, had promised a transfer of the handling of their asylum claims to Berlin, as well as "connivance" ("Duldung") for 6 months, access to the job market, to education and German courses.

At this point, none of these promises have been met, and more than 10 people who are on the list of the Oranienplatz-Paper [in connection with its eviction earlier this year; addition of the translator], already received deportation orders.
Their deportation could only be stopped through political campaigns and some lawyers. Kolat's "offer" was non-effective. Two months later, nobody had gotten a transfer and the "connivance" is being ignored by the "aliens department".

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/frank-henkel-unterst%C3%BCtzt-die...

STATEMENT FROM THE REFUGEES ON THE ROOF OF THE FORMER GERHARDT HAUPTMAN SCHULE
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We are now on the roof since six days. The last days have been very hard and exhausting to us, not only because of being on the roof, but more because we are facing harrassment by the police again and again.

During the night of 27/28 June police was shaking the door and made different statements so we could not get a rest. Deprivation of sleep is only one of the methods through which they were trying to break our resistance. As Ramadan has begun, many of us must fast. The lack of sleep due to the police and demands of fasting make the situation more
precarious.
During the day the police insulted as in racist ways. They were watching us from another roof and waving, not only with handcuffs, but also with bananas.

We continue to fight for freedom of the press. We still demand that the press be allowed inside!

On Yesterday’s ‘Offer’

So far the district has promised that they will not evict and the police wrote on twitter that they will not evict without the Bezirk.

We look favorably upon the fact that the school will become an international refugee center, which had already been promised, and also that we will be allowed to stay in the building during the construction work. But there were other people, who didn’t leave the
school voluntarily. Those people are not included; some of them are living in the streets because there was no more space for them in the promised places, some of them didn’t want to move there.
We are frustrated about the methods of the senate and outraged by Kolat’s lies. We fight as a movement and expect that everyone encompassed by the agreement with Kolat will get positive answers.

Since the beginning we put emphasis on our demand for residency, the right to stay (!) and that the school was not our main aim. We are aware that the district is not able to fulfill this demand, but at least they could make some pressure and actively support the political
demand. If there will really be an international refugee center, what will be the use if the people there get deported? If only the people who are in the building/on the roof now can stay, lager-like structures would be implemented (controls, who enters etc.)

There was big solidarity at Saturday’s demonstration, there were many people there and in the blockades.

It is time to change the Asylum politics!
It is time for a real answer to our Demands.
The right to residency, the right to stay!
These are our rights and we are still prepared to die for them!
We need an answer!

YOU CAN‘T EVICT A MOVEMENT

Eerdere berichtgeving, 24/06/2014: Ontruiming gekraakte vlucht-school Berlijn, https://www.indymedia.nl/node/23614 .