ID–WITHOUTCOLORS
Realizador Riccardo Valsecchi
Países Germany
Duração 29 min
Sinopse
On February 27, 2012, the administrative court of Koblenz, in Western Germany, dismissed a complaint by a black German man who was asked to show his papers while travelling by train. The judges ruled that skin color was reasonable grounds on which to carry out ID checks, also in absence of any other reasons. While German police and government have been always denying the use of racist criteria for ID- check, Koblenz’s sentence confirmed for the first time the existence and practice of racial profiling in Germany.
On February 27, 2012, the administrative court of Koblenz, in Western Germany, dismissed a complaint by a black German man who was asked to show his papers while travelling by train. The judges ruled that skin color was reasonable grounds on which to carry out ID checks, also in absence of any other reasons. While German police and government have been always denying the use of racist criteria for ID- check, Koblenz’s sentence confirmed for the first time the existence and practice of racial profiling in Germany.