For the past six years, the Bavarian police have had extensive opportunities to take people into custody as a preventive measure, and since July 2021 the duration has been capped at a maximum of two months. This means of so-called preventive detention is also so controversial because it was last used on climate activists – locked up for weeks because it was feared that they would disrupt road traffic. However, as has now become clear, the Bavarian Constitutional Court has no objections to this.
Why Bavaria’s constitutional guardians have nothing against preventive detention – Bayern
