Tag: Police

  • EU aerial surveillance for Libya makes Tripoli coastguard doing the “dirty work”

    EU aerial surveillance for Libya makes Tripoli coastguard doing the “dirty work”

    The European border agency observes boats with refugees from the air and lets them be brought back to North Africa. A new report by human rights organisations criticises this as “Airborne Complicity”. The European Union has withdrawn ships from the…

  • Allegedly hardly any “Reichsbürger” among German security authorities

    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…

  • German football fans speak out against repression

    German football fans speak out against repression

    Umbrella organisation defends itself against surveillance and arbitrary police violence Football fans are demanding less violence and surveillance from the police in Germany. At the annual general meeting of their umbrella organisation in Hanover, 22 local associations published a joint…

  • Go film the police: How the police want to define the “de facto public”

    Go film the police: How the police want to define the “de facto public”

    Interview with Maren Burkhardt The German Campaign for Victims of Racist Police Violence (Kampagne für Opfer rassistischer Polizeigewalt, KOP) calls for documenting police actions with video footage. Initially, the police defended themselves against this with the Art Copyright Act, now…