A Body Does Not Just Combust: Racism and the Law in Germany

Oury Jalloh, an asylum-seeker from Sierra Leone, burned to death chained to a mattress in a German holding cell. Eddie Bruce-Jones, a senior legal lecturer at University of London’s Birkbeck College School of Law, writes that the myriad mistakes in the investigation and prosecution of Jalloh’s case reveal patterns institutional racism that many Germans are unwilling to confront.