E/CN.4/1996/72 page 18 68. The Special Rapporteur hopes he has fulfilled a useful role in contributing to the understanding of part of the problems and to the quest for appropriate solutions. Notes 1/ A criminal fire at the home of a Turkish family which left five dead and three injured in May 1993. The four people responsible for this act were sentenced on 13 October 1995 by a court in Düsseldorf to prison terms of between 10 and 15 years. 2/ Extracts from the observations of the German Government communicated by a note verbale, dated 8 January 1996, from the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to the Centre for Human Rights. 3/ Le Monde, Saturday, 11 November 1995 "Carpentras, a poisoned town ... more than five years after the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of the town ...". 4/ Cf. "Anger over UN investigation into racism in Britain" and "A foolish intervention. The UN has no role in British race relations", The Times, 12 December 1994, pp. 1 and 19. 5/ CCPR/C/95/Add.3. 6/ CCPR/C/79/Add.55, para. 2. Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights relates to the prohibition of discrimination in all its forms. 7/ In particular, the Committee was concerned: "That, notwithstanding [the] establishment ... of mechanisms for external supervision of investigations of incidents in which the police or military are allegedly involved, especially incidents that result in death or wounding of persons, as the investigations are still carried out by the police, they lack sufficient credibility;" "That members of some ethnic minorities including Africans and Afro-Caribbeans are often disproportionately subjected to stop-and-search practices that may raise doubts under the non-discriminatory provisions of the Covenant ...". The Committee also emphasized that "the treatment of illegal immigrants, asylum-seekers and those ordered to be deported gives cause for concern", and observed "that the incarceration of persons ordered to be deported and particularly the length of their detention may not be necessary in every case and it is gravely concerned at instances of the use of excessive force in the execution of deportation orders".