Death of Achidi John

In commemoration of the case, the place in front of the Rote Flora has unofficially been named Achidi John Square by left-wing groups.

In the asylum procedure, Achidi John stated, among other things, that he had been threatened with death as a human sacrifice in Cameroon and that he had come directly to Hamburg on a ship when he escaped.

[6] 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).

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.

A subsequent enforcement procedure by Achidi John's father was rejected by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in July 2003,[11][12][13][10] The case was listed in the 2002 Amnesty International report for Germany.

[17] A few days before John's death, the coalition of the CDU, FDP and the Party for a Rule of Law Offensive significantly lowered the requirements for the use of emetics.

[10] 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.