Wrong date of birth and wrong name: The Hamburg attacker is charged before the youth judge of the local court. In his home country, he was given false identity papers, which he then used.
Professional soccer player Bakery Jatta has to go to court. The Hamburg public prosecutor brought charges against the player from the second division Hamburger SV before the youth judge of the Hamburg-Altona district court.
According to the authority, he is actually Bakary Daffeh, two and a half years older. The Gambier is accused of “offenses against the Residence Act in four cases and indirect false certification in one further case”. According to this, Jatta traveled to Germany via Italy in the summer of 2015 as a refugee without a passport or residence permit.
In Bremen he passed himself off as Bakery Jatta, born on June 6, 1998, according to the indictment. With this he wanted to achieve that “because of the alleged minority and the resulting obstacle to deportation” is granted a tolerance. According to the public prosecutor’s office, however, it is Bakary Daffeh, born on November 6, 1995. Under this name, the Gambier played as a professional footballer for various African clubs.
In his home country, he is said to have been issued with identification papers with his new identity, which he used when his residence permit was later extended. He is also said to have applied for a driver’s license using this information. The trial will be held before the juvenile judge, “because the accused was partly an adolescent and partly an adult during the period in question,” it says. According to the public prosecutor’s office, most allegations have to be judged under youth law.