analysis Status: 02/01/2023 1:43 p.m According to the Federal Constitutional Court, the police law in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is partly unconstitutional. The judges found that a number of measures were inadmissible. The decision has nationwide significance. By Klaus Hempel, ARD legal department In 2020, the police in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania received numerous new powers to prevent criminal offenses in advance. For example, the use of undercover investigators and informants, who are used to siphon off information from suspicious persons, has been made...
Status: 02/01/2023 10:26 a.m The new police law in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been in force since 2020. The Federal Constitutional Court has now ruled that it is partially unconstitutional. Several provisions on surveillance measures are not proportionate. The expanded investigative powers of the police in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are partly unconstitutional. That was the verdict of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. The provisions on covert surveillance measures did not fully meet the proportionality requirements. There are complaints, among other things,...
The horror of Brokstedt's knife attack reverberates. Such perpetrators are often mentally ill and then end up with chief physician Christian Oberbauer, head of the correctional system at the Psychiatric Center in North Baden. in the starinterview, he talks about why such crimes occur and how the perpetrators are treated there. Dr. Oberbauer, the fatal attack on the regional train near Brokstedt unsettled many people. Last year there were said to have been 82 knife attacks on trains, almost twice...
Status: 01/31/2023 11:29 am The Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS) is to develop tools and methods for the police and secret services. So far, however, it has been working without a legal basis. That should change now. It presents itself as modern and hip, the German "hacker authority" ZITiS. The abbreviation stands for: Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector. One is the "start-up" among the authorities, as the boss likes to describe...
Great Britain left the EU three years ago. The conservative government is still looking for ways to make this step a success. Now you want to radically free yourself from old chains. Brexit, an own goal? Three years after Britain left the EU, a majority of the crisis-stricken British population thinks the move was a mistake, polls show. For the governing Brexit supporters, the pressure is therefore greater than ever to finally deliver tangible benefits. A controversial project aims to...
By Le FigaroPosted yesterday at 6:04 p.m., Update 54 minutes agoThe leader of the Insoumis also criticized the “class contempt” of a “social category which little by little does not even hesitate to display its parasitism”.Jean-Luc Mélenchon signed a violent outing on January 28 against the "rich"which he said would make"secession" in the country. "You see it with the way they talk to you“Explained the leader of the Insoumis who came to speak in Villiers-le-Bel, alongside the Insoumis deputy Carlos...
When the groundbreaking "Only yes means yes" law was passed last October, Spain breathed a sigh of relief: it was hoped that violence against women would finally end. A new wave of murders fuels doubts about the usefulness of the law. Right? The last month of 2022 went down in Spanish history as "Black December": eleven women were murdered by their current or former partners, the shock in the country runs deep. There is no news program without a report...
A text, which will be put to the vote at the PS congress in Marseille, confirms the victory of Olivier Faure over Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. The latter will become "first deputy secretary" alongside Johanna Rolland.The socialists had prepared the chimney for white smoke. This Saturday in Marseille, relatives of Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol explained that a "protocol of agreement" between the two men had finally been recorded. The text will be submitted to the vote of the socialist delegates from...
houses of Parliament No compromise evident in dispute over electoral reform View of the plenary hall of the Bundestag in the Reichstag building. photo © Michael Kappeler/dpa Parliament is too big - there is broad agreement on this in Berlin. But not about how it should get back to its normal size. Now the deputies are debating on their own behalf. In the dispute over the right way to downsize the Bundestag, there is no sign of a compromise. During...
monitoring New constitutional complaint against reformed BND law Technology is at the Schöningen branch of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in the Helmstedt district. photo © Julian Stratenschulte/dpa The purpose of the reform was to draw clear limits on mass surveillance without cause in the BND law. But the opposite is the case, critics complain - and go to court in Karlsruhe. The worldwide surveillance activities of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) are again a case for the Federal Constitutional...
