Deported refugee commits suicide in Romania

In 1990, Marin Mogos fled with his wife and children to Germany from Romania during the upheavals that followed the toppling of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Like hundreds of other Roma and their families, they had been persecuted and abused by the notorious secret police, Securitate. His wife suffered a miscarriage after being beaten by the secret police.

Like many other Roma who had fled Romania and became stateless, the Mogos renounced their Romanian citizenship, lodging an appeal for asylum in Germany in the hope of being granted citizenship at a later date.

The asylum proceedings dragged on until 2001, ending with the rejection of their application for asylum; the German foreign office in the meantime had deemed Romania to be a “safe third country.”

The Mogos family had been housed at a centre for refugees in Schwalbach, in the state of Hesse, immediately after their arrival. They later settled in Kastel near Wiesbaden, where the five children grew up and attended school and, like so many other asylum-seekers and “tolerated” immigrants living under constant threat of deportation, were fully integrated into German society.

After the rejection of their application for asylum, the family was allowed to remain for a few more months. The administrative court of Wiesbaden rejected their appeal and also refused their request to extend their permission to stay on. Shortly thereafter, in the early morning hours of March 7, 2002, the Mogos family—father Marin, mother Anisoara, as well as three of their children, Gabriela, Gheorghe and Dorina, aged 15, 17 and 18 at the time—were taken from the apartment where they had lived for the last 10 years. A total of 14 police were involved in the operation and the family were led away in handcuffs, to be deported to Bucharest. Two other children who had married German nationals were allowed to stay in Germany.

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