German police can base ID checks on skin color court rules

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Edmundo Nhantumbo., From Portugal, since 3 years in Berlin, "In German there are still so many controls. One more doesn't change, however people can't react. They are the law.".

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El Ali W., A storekeeper from Palestine in Berlin, "The police are very nice with us. No one has ever checked our ID".

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Ras Chamy, a musician from Namibia in Berlin, "It's nothing new. Since I am living here, i have seen this kind of discrimination many times. Just few mintutes ago some policemen took a black man in the park accusing him of being drug-dealer.

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A storekeeper from Lebanon in Berlin, "Police has to control people; it doesn't matter which is the pretext.".

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On March 27, the administrative court of Koblenz, in western Germany, dismissed a complaint by a black German man who was asked by policemen to show his papers while travelling by train.