Tag: Water Cannons
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Complaint against water cannons: German police use excessive force against Dutch climate protest
A district court in the Netherlands is hearing a lawsuit filed by Extinction Rebellion against the use of foreign water cannons. These are alleged to have targeted the heads of demonstrators. It is not only in Germany that police are using excessive force against climate demonstrations. For more than three weeks, the Federal Police have […]
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Water cannons to neighboring countries: Germany leads cross-border support against mass protests
Dutch police spray demonstrators off the street with German water cannons. This cross-border cooperation has been a unilateral tradition for 20 years. For days, tens of thousands of activists have been blockading the government quarter in The Hague following a call by the group Extinction Rebellion. To clear an occupied highway, Dutch police deployed water […]
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Security gap in blue-light vehicles: Locations of Rosenbauer technology accessible on the Internet
The German hacker collective “Zerforschung” was able to locate around 4300 vehicles of fire departments, police and military worldwide. The group does not reveal whether police water cannons are among them. Customers of the Austrian Rosenbauer Group can call up geodata with precise coordinates of their commercial vehicles via a “live location” function. This data […]
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Up to 90 more new tanks for police in Germany
The Federal Police and the riot police of the federal states are paying € 81 million for armoured vehicles from Rheinmetall. Some procured them already for their special forces On 15 November 2021, the procurement office of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior) awarded the company Rheinmetall Landfahrzeuge GmbH the contract for 45 “Survivor […]