Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Right-wing Extremists

  • Focus in Saxony: Germany-wide again significantly more right-wing extremist marches

    Focus in Saxony: Germany-wide again significantly more right-wing extremist marches

    Most recently, 400 people celebrated the attack on refugees at a demonstration in Sebnitz The political gatherings organized from the right-wing scene in Germany have tripled compared to the previous year. In the first half of 2022, 35 Nazi marches were recorded nationwide. In the same period this year, there were already 110 such events. […]

  • Germany: “Knife experts” of police and media under fire

    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 in the federal and state governments has been trying to prove with parliamentary questions that […]

  • Police in Austria use facial recognition for demonstrations

    Police in Austria use facial recognition for demonstrations

    The comparison of police photographs in Austria and Germany was provided by the Cognitech company from Dresden. In both countries the technology was used in investigations after political assemblies. In future, the EU wants to make facial image searches possible in all member states. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Austria also uses its […]