Tag: Federal Police
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Germany: “Knife experts” of police and media under fire
Right-wing politicians and the media work with questionable statistics on knives as a means of committing crimes. The Federal Criminal Police Office will not publish valid figures until this year. For more than two years, the right-wing extremist AfD party…
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Another police unit for French-German migration defence
A joint Franco-German police force will be deployed to sporting events, protests and against “migration flows”. Another unit undermines Germany’s principle of separation between the police and the military. Germany and France want to strengthen their cooperation against “migration flows”.…
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End of Berlin model project: Politicians, police dispute about tasers
Since the turn of the millennium, German special forces have been equipped with “distance electric pulse devices”, and more and more states now allow them in patrol duty. Within three years, six people died in Germany after being shot. The…
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German Investigations dropped: Indymedia platform was not a criminal association
The German linksunten.indymedia, founded in 2008, was banned under the Associations Act, and the entire technical infrastructure and funds of a left-wing center were confiscated. Seized storage devices apparently could not be decrypted. Almost five years after the ban of…
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EU PNR Directive: Germany stored and processed 63 million passengers
Four years ago, the German parliament passed a Passenger Data Act, and since then, more and more travellers have been dragnetted. Federal police and customs take over “follow-up measures”. German police authorities processed around 212 million passenger data last year.…
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Secret German drone defence
The Federal Police secures all German commercial airports against unwanted approaches by small copters. Mobile installations are followed by a stationary platform Obstructions caused by small drones at German airports remain at the same level as in previous years. In…