Tag: Germany
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Possibly two G20 trials against police in Germany after all, but brutal racist cop still faces no consequences
Following “unabated critical reporting”, Hamburg’s public prosecutor’s office reopened some investigations into assaults on police officers. However, a racist from Baden-Württemberg has yet gone unpunished after disciplinary investigations. A police officer from Baden-Württemberg who attracted attention as particularly brutal at…
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Bundeswehr spying from space: A Musk rocket has launched the last two SARah satellites
The German military wants to use a new radar spy system to spy through trees and camouflage nets from space. Secret service agents could also benefit from this. On Sunday, the German Armed Forces launched two more satellites from their…
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German police has hundreds of Gaza postings deleted, Europol removes content during “action day”
The German government wants all EU states to remove postings on Hamas solidarity from the Internet. Providers of digital services had to delete a lot of content relating to the Gaza war on the orders of the Federal Criminal Police…
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Digital police problem: German authorities pool millions of dubious data records at the BKA
The Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany stores millions of facial images and fingerprints, as well as tens of thousands of people with stigmatising categories. The police forces in all 16 German states maintain their own databases, including for incident…