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IRR > European Race Bulletin > Switzerland > Asylum seekers and refugees

Samson Chukwu deportation death: no police officers prosecuted

By Liz Fekete

1 July 2002

In March 2002 the Cantanol Court dismissed an appeal lodged by the family of Samson Chukwu against a decision, by the Valais investigating magistrate in September 2001, that no criminal investigation should be opened against the deportation officers involved.

The investigating magistrate based his decision on police statements indicating that the officers had not violated standard procedures and had not been trained in, and were unaware of, the dangers of the restraint methods they had used. Further appeals were lodged with the Federal Court in April.

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