A Moroccan
asylum seeker has been badly injured after setting himself alight on a German
street. He was protesting his imminent deportation.
Deutsche Welle, 19 April 2015
Rejected asylum seekers about to enter plane. Photo: Patrick Seeger/dpa |
Police said
on Sunday that the 36-year-old Moroccan man had suffered life-threatening
injuries after pouring petrol over himself and setting it alight in the town of
Lingen in the northwestern state of Lower Saxony.
He had
previously rung police to warn them of his suicide attempt, which took place on
a public street late on Saturday evening.
Passers-by
threw him to the ground in a bid to put out the flames before police arrived
with a fire extinguisher.
The man was
first taken to a local hospital, then flown by helicopter to a specialist burns
unit in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.
The suicide
attempt was carried out in protest at the man's scheduled deportation on
Monday, after German authorities had refused his application for political
asylum.
Germany,
already Europe's most populous nation, has become the top destination for asylum seekers in Europe. It saw a rise of 60 percent in asylum requests last
year, bringing the number of applications to more than 200,000, and they are
expected to increase further this year.
tj/kms(AFP, dpa)
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