10936 - Analysis: Deaths during forced deportation - Institute of Race Relations
This was the second attempt to deport Samson Chukwu as a previous attempt, several weeks earlier, failed when the aeroplane pilot refused to take him on board. In this, the second deportation attempt, anti-terror unit officers from the canton of Valais arrived in the early hours of the morning at the detention centre in Valais to escort Chukwu onto a specially chartered flight. He died in the detention centre at the start of this forced deportation operation.