Tag: Bavaria
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Asylum seekers: EU fingerprint database to be expanded as it reaches capacity limit
Eurodac, the EU biometric migration control database, is reaching its capacity limit. However, a political agreement to expand it has not progressed since 2016. Now an immense number of queries by police from Germany come as a surprise. According to…
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What did Bavaria’s secret service knew about plans for anti-Semitic double murder in 1980?
Prosecutors review new investigation into murder of Shlomo Levin and Frida Poeschke, as the secret service may have been aware of plans by the radical right-wing “Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann” to murder Shlomo Levin and Frida Poeschke 43 years ago. This is…
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Radical thoughts: “Ask the State” publishes court investigation files on the Last Generation
Publishing official documents from criminal proceedings is punishable by law in Germany. “I do it anyway,” says Arne Semsrott. In doing so, he knows the European Court of Human Rights is on his side. On Tuesday, the information platform “Ask…
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German anti-terrorism exercise: Police and military practice together in Bavaria
In “AlpenTEX”, the German Armed Forces and the state police are training for a terrorist emergency. Actually, the Federal Police would be called in for this, but they have been specifically written out of the exercise scenario. For two days,…