The suicide of a Georgian refugee in a Hamburg deportation centre graphically expresses the contempt for human life on the part of the city's Senate - a coalition of the free-market Free Democratic Party and the Greens.

David M., a citizen from Georgia, hanged himself in his cell on March 7, 2010. He had been taken to the city's deportation centre although he had informed the authorities in his application for asylum that he was just 17 years old. The arrest of a juvenile in Germany merely because he lacks proper papers is a breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.