By Florian Flade and Christoph Koopmann, Berlin/MunichThe messenger service Telegram, which is driving some police officers and prosecutors to despair, was originally developed by Russian programmers to evade Putin's surveillance state. Anyone chatting here can remain anonymous. But right-wing extremists and conspiracy ideologues have long been rushing over the platform, and jihadists are romping about here. source site
Anti-terror investigators arrested a 32-year-old in the Ruhr area who is said to have prepared an Islamist attack. The investigators searched the apartment of the Iranian national in Castrop-Rauxel on Sunday night. The man is suspected of having obtained the toxins cyanide and ricin for the crime, said the Düsseldorf public prosecutor, the Recklinghausen police and the Münster police early on Sunday morning.The 32-year-old was reportedly taken into custody along with another man. It was initially unclear how far the...
Germany Federal Criminal Police Office Number of Islamist threats in Germany has fallen Status: 06:16 a.m | Reading time: 2 minutes According to the BKA, the number of Islamist threats has fallen Credit: pa/imageBROKER/Siegfried Grassegger The Federal Criminal Police Office is currently aware of 520 Islamist threats in Germany - the number is lower than in the previous year, but is still higher than that of right-wing or left-wing extremists. The Interior Ministry is not giving the all-clear. DThe number...
Exclusive Status: 12/16/2022 5:59 am German investigators have struck a blow against pedo-criminal online platforms. The alleged main administrator was arrested in Saxony. However, a copy of a forum is already online again, and another main suspect has apparently escaped. By Robert Bongen, Daniel Moßbrucker, NDR, and Florian Flade, WDR On the Internet he called himself "Elias Harper", after a character from the American television series quantico, about FBI recruits. On November 29, the man finally received a surprise visit...
Karlsruhe/Berlin. Die deutschen Sicherheitsbehörden rechnen nach der Großrazzia gegen eine "Reichsbürger"-Gruppierung wegen Umsturzplänen mit weiteren Beschuldigten und Durchsuchungen. Die Präsidenten von Verfassungsschutz und Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) sowie der Generalbundesanwalt zeigten sich am Mittwochabend in Interviews überzeugt von der Ernsthaftigkeit der Umsturzpläne.Die Bundesanwaltschaft hatte am Mittwoch in elf Bundesländern sowie in Italien und Österreich insgesamt 25 Menschen festnehmen lassen. 22 von ihnen wirft sie vor, Mitglied einer terroristischen Vereinigung zu sein, die das politische System in Deutschland stürzen wollte. Bei 19 Verdächtigen...
After the largest raid against the milieu of the so-called Reich citizens, arrest warrants have been issued against the first suspects. Eight of the 25 arrested were already in custody, said Attorney General Peter Frank in the early afternoon. They are accused of membership or support of a domestic terrorist organization. According to Frank, they were arrested in Germany, Austria and Italy.Around 3,000 officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Federal Police and the State Criminal Police Offices have...
The largest raid against the Reich bourgeois milieu has been underway nationwide since six o'clock on Wednesday morning. About 3,000 officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Federal Police and the State Criminal Police Offices are searching 137 objects in eleven federal states on behalf of the Attorney General. It is about the suspicion of the "formation of a terrorist organization". Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) spoke of the "abyss of a terrorist threat".According to information from Suddeutscher...
Since early morning, officers have been searching the homes of right-wingers and conspiracy tellers nationwide in one of the largest raids in history. The alleged terrorist network is suspected of having planned a coup.The largest raid against the Reich bourgeois milieu has been underway nationwide since six o'clock on Wednesday morning. About 3,000 officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Federal Police and the State Criminal Police Offices are searching 137 objects in eleven federal states on behalf of...
crime BKA President warns of more cybercrime The President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Münch. photo © Arne Dedert/dpa Cybercrime is becoming more and more part of everyday life. After the corona pandemic, BKA President Holger Münch now sees a new catalyst for cybercrime. BKA President Holger Münch warns of an increase in cybercrime as a result of the war in Ukraine. "This war is also being waged in digital space," said Münch at the fall conference of...
The danger from gangs and clans is growing, organized crime has become a billion dollar business in Germany. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser now wants to intensify the fight against mafia and drug bosses with a new strategy.Of Markus Balser, BerlinHow big is the state's fear of losing control? There are 14 pages of small text that make you sit up and take notice. The paper from the Federal Ministry of the Interior by Nancy Faeser (SPD) is titled "Strategy for...
