Recently there has been a lot of wrong information about the members of the group “Lampedusa in Hamburg” accommodated in the St. Pauli Church. It is not true that everyone sleeping in the church has accepted the offer made by the senate. The group “Lampedusa in Hamburg” has information that not more than one third of the refugees in the church have signalled the willingness to accept a “Duldung”.
The group has definitely not split up. The group structures are still functioning, even though there is a lot of pressure on the group. Asuquo Udo, one of the speakers of “Lampedusa in Hamburg”, comments on this:
Two years after the war in Libya destroyed our lives we have still not reached the end of our flight. We are denied every possibility to lead are normal life again. In such a traumatic situation everyone has to take decisions about his own future. After long discussions we see that there are many hidden dangers in the offer made by the senate, which makes a further dialogue with the senate necessary. The struggle of the group “Lampedusa in Hamburg” continues, we stand together and demand our rights!