THURINGIA STATE PARLIAMENT Document 6/6808 6th Electoral Term on Document 6/5765 on Document 6/5704 on Document 6/3374 on Document 6/3108 - 2. Revised version - 18.02.2019 I n t e r i m R e p o r t of the Commission of Inquiry 6/1 'Causes and Forms of Racism and Discrimination in Thuringia and their Effects on Social Coexistence and Free Democracy' The Commission of Inquiry 6/1 presents the following interim report to the State Parliament pursuant to § 84 Para. 5 of the Rules of Procedure of the Thuringia State Parliament in conjunction with the decisions of the State Parliament dated 26.01.2017 – Document 6/3374 – and 23.05.2018 – Document 6/5765: Note from the State Parliament Administration: The interim report can be viewed in electronic form in the information system for members of parliament and in the parliamentary documentation at www.parldok.thueringen.de/parldok/ under the document number given above. Preprint circulated on 18th February 2019 Print: Thuringia State Parliament, 10th April 2019 Table of Contents Table of Contents ....................................................................................................... II Glossary ................................................................................................................... VII List of abbreviations ............................................................................................... XVIII A. FORMAL FOUNDATIONS ........................................................................... - 1 - I. Appointment and Work Order ..................................................................................................... - 1 - II. Concretisation of the Work Order and Specification of the Work Programme ..................... - 3 - III. Composition of the Commission ................................................................................................ - 5 - 1) Constituting the commission and election of the chairperson and deputy chairperson ......... - 5 - 2) Parliamentary members of the commission ........................................................................... - 5 - 3) Expert members of the commission ....................................................................................... - 7 - 4) Support for the commission’s work ....................................................................................... - 10 - a) State Parliament Administration .................................................................................... - 10 - b) Parliamentary parties .................................................................................................... - 10 - IV. Course of Sessions .................................................................................................................... - 10 - 1) Appointment of representatives ............................................................................................ - 12 - 2) Building of working groups for the preparation of the interim report .................................... - 13 - 3) Details about the course of sessions .................................................................................... - 14 - a) First session on 27th June 2017 ................................................................................... - 14 - b) Second session on 15th August 2017 .......................................................................... - 15 - c) Third session on 12th September 2017 ........................................................................ - 15 - d) Fourth session on 17th October 2017........................................................................... - 16 - e) Fifth session on 22nd November 2017 ......................................................................... - 17 - f) Sixth session on 19th December 2017 ......................................................................... - 18 - g) Seventh session on 9th January 2018 .......................................................................... - 20 - h) Eighth session on 30th January 2018 ........................................................................... - 21 - i) Ninth session on 6th March 2018 ................................................................................. - 22 - j) Tenth session on 23rd March 2018 .............................................................................. - 26 - k) Eleventh session on 10th April 2018............................................................................. - 26 - 4) Viewing of session documents ............................................................................................. - 29 - B. INSIGHTS FROM THE WORK PERFORMED BY THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY SO FAR ................................................................................................ - 30 - II I. Review and General Problem Description ............................................................................... - 30 - 1) Definition and concretisation................................................................................................. - 30 - 2) Social and legal situation in Thuringia and in the Federal Republic of Germany ................. - 34 - a) Social situation in Thuringia and in the Federal Republic of Germany ......................... - 34 - (1) Insights from the topics included in A1 of the information gathering phase ............ - 34 - (2) Insights from the topics included in A2 of the information gathering phase ............ - 39 - b) The legal situation in Thuringia and in the Federal Republic of Germany .................... - 44 - (1) International, transnational and European legal foundations .................................. - 45 - (2) Federal foundations ................................................................................................. - 46 - (3) Legal situation in Thuringia ...................................................................................... - 50 - II. Insights from Phase I “Information Gathering” of the Working Group ................................ - 52 - 1) Education .............................................................................................................................. - 52 - a) Preliminary remark ........................................................................................................ - 52 - b) Problem description ...................................................................................................... - 55 - c) Current state of affairs................................................................................................... - 64 - d) Measures from the course of sessions ......................................................................... - 70 - e) Outlook for the further course of sessions .................................................................... - 77 - 2) Police and Internal Affairs ..................................................................................................... - 79 - a) Preliminary remark ........................................................................................................ - 79 - b) Problem description ...................................................................................................... - 81 - (1) Attitudes and routines .............................................................................................. - 84 - (2) Esprit de corps and “culture in which mistakes are tackled constructively” ............. - 86 - (3) Collection, punishment, prevention .......................................................................... - 87 - (4) Dealing with victims of racist and other inhuman violence, secondary victimisation- 90 - (5) Racist and discriminatory behaviour of or by police officers or the police as an institution ................................................................................................................................ - 92 - (6) Racial profiling ......................................................................................................... - 93 - (7) Education and training ............................................................................................. - 95 - (8) Cooperation with NGOs/civil society organisations ................................................. - 98 - c) Current state of affairs................................................................................................... - 99 - (1) Attitudes and routines .............................................................................................. - 99 - (2) Esprit de corps and “culture in which mistakes are tackled constructively” ........... - 100 - (3) Collection, punishment, prevention ........................................................................ - 100 - (4) Dealing with victims of racist and other inhuman violence, secondary victimisation ...... - 103 - (5) Racist and discriminatory behaviour of or by police officers or the police as an institution .............................................................................................................................. - 104 - (6) Racial profiling ....................................................................................................... - 104 - (7) Education and training ........................................................................................... - 105 - III (8) Cooperation with NGOs/civil society organisations ............................................... - 107 - d) Measures from the course of sessions ......................................................................