Access to the Jewish community denied

Application to the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Berlin (Berlin Prosecutor General’s Office) to enable calls to telephone number 030/21280830.

The social worker at JVA Moabit (Moabit prison), Ms Gaedke, informed me of an oral refusal by OStA Wachs, accompanied by a prohibition on giving me the written decision.

I applied for judicial permission to contact Rabbi Segal by telephone and for a finding that withholding OStA Wachs’s refusal decision was unlawful.

In a letter without a prescribed form, Judge Groß set my application aside, expressed satisfaction with the refusal of telephone contact and also refused the requested information on appeal rights. He said nothing about the withholding of the written refusal.

Several further applications to the management of JVA Moabit to enable calls to the telephone numbers of the Jewish community and the Zentralrat der Juden (Central Council of Jews), each with a detailed explanation of the legal position.

In a separate declaration recorded by the Rechtspflegerin (a judicial officer with independent procedural duties), I expressly applied for permission for an unmonitored telephone call with another rabbi under § 119 Abs. 4 Nr. 18 i.V.m. § 53 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 StPO.