Amadeu Antonio Kiowa

The verdicts reached during the course of the trial of the murderers were widely criticised as being too lax, as the court had sentenced them to four years in prison for bodily injury that resulted in death (Körperverletzung mit Todesfolge).

He had hoped to study aeronautic technology, but as with many Angolan foreign workers at that time, he became a butcher at EWG Ewersbalder Wurst in Eberswalde, Brandenburg, where he met his girlfriend.

The status of the relationship, while anticipating a child in 1990, changed abruptly as many of the vertragsarbeiter lost their jobs and their residency authorization was in limbo due to the cancelling of contracts made with their home countries.

[1] In 1994, the District Court of Frankfurt (Oder) rejected the accusation against the police officers for Körperverletzung mit Todesfolge durch Unterlassen (Bodily injury that resulted in death by omission).

The Commissary of Foreign Businesses of Brandenburg, Almuth Berger, feared that such sentences could be interpreted as an "encouragement of xenophobic attacks".

The Minister of Justice of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Peter Caesar, warned that acts of violence against foreign citizens are not instances of "juvenile delinquency".

Similarly, criminal law specialist Monika Frommel described the act as such in 1992:[11]When the Angolan Antonio Amadeu was killed by 'skins' in Eberswalde nearly two years ago, it became clear that the protests in East Germany were not just a form of juvenile disturbances.

The Amadeu Antonio Foundation, in memory of Kiowa, was founded in 1998 to strengthen civil society against far-right extremist violence in everyday life.

Since 2007, the Barnimer initiative Light me Amadeu has organized protests and acts against xenophobia, as well as having hosted commemorative events every year on the anniversary of his death.

[22][23] Gabriele died in 2015; their son Amadeu Schimansky lived in Eberswalde and played in the local football club, FV Preussen.

[24] Kiowa's mother, Helena Alfonso, of Bakongo origin, lived in Rocha Pinto, in the Samba district of Luanda.

In 2001, with the help of donations, she went with one of her children to Germany to do a blood test to confirm the paternity of Kiowa and obtain compensation pension as result of her son's murder.