Tag: BfV
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Allegedly hardly any “Reichsbürger” among German security authorities
Unlike right-wing extremism in general, the number of known cases of “Citizens of the Reich” among police and military is conspicuously low “The accused are united by a deep rejection of state institutions and the free democratic basic order of the Federal Republic of Germany,” writes the Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Supreme Court […]
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German police and secret service: Transmission of Kurdish association data is illegal
Associations of foreign nationals are kept in a central register in Germany. Members of Kurdish foundations are subject to special surveillance. However, a corresponding decree from 1994 can not be found anymore. The German Federal Office of Administration (BVA) transmits data on Kurdish associations to the police and secret service without any reason. The background […]
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Quitting EU adviser: Gilles de Kerchove invents “left-wing terrorist” threat
A handful of property damages in Italy could lead to left-wing activism being pursued more closely by police and secret services across the European Union. The initiative bears the hallmarks of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Meanwhile, a package of measures against “violent right-wing extremism and terrorism” has petered out. In […]
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Germany: The state hacks along
With the temporary exception of the Federal Police, all German police agencies and secret services are now allowed to hack into computers and telephones. This is an extremely deep invasion of privacy On 10 June, the Bundestag massively expanded the use of state trojan horse programmes. A bill on the “adaptation of the law on […]