The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) is taking action against the spread of terrorist content on the Internet and has hundreds of links deleted.

BKA helps: Jihadists use digital media every day to spread their propaganda worldwide. Both on the Internet and in specially set up channels and groups on various messenger services, they call on sympathizers of the so-called Islamic State (IS) and the global jihad to carry out attacks, especially against Western targets.

Report content to the online service provider

In order to counter the digital spread of Islamist propaganda, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) set up a national reporting center in October 2018: the Internet Referral Unit (IRU), which reports such content to online service providers and encourages its deletion.

Today's Joint Action Day “AMAQ” showed how important international cooperation is for dismantling channels of dissemination of terrorist propaganda. Coordinated by the European police authority Europol, police authorities from 30 countries took part and contributed to the deletion of thousands of websites with IS propaganda content and the blocking of an equal number of messenger channels and groups.

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The BKA's IRU alone sent Europol over 1,300 deletion requests for messenger accounts and over 200 deletion requests for links that lead to jihadist propaganda.

Help from the BKA

Since 2015, the Federal Criminal Police Office has been involved in the crackdown on the technical infrastructure of the IS-operated propaganda media outlet “AMAQ”. “AMAQ” had been considered the terrorist militia's mouthpiece since 2014 and was used, among other things, to distribute the letter of responsibility for the attack on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz in December 2016. AMAQ websites have been taken down several times in recent years - also with the help of the Federal Criminal Police Office, which secured servers in Germany as part of measures coordinated by Europol.

This made a significant contribution to destroying the technical infrastructure of this propaganda media outlet. The “AMAQ” website was finally removed from the internet in April 2018. The operators of “AMAQ”, who are presumably in Syria, then increasingly switched to messenger services with their embassies - which has now been countered by cross-border action again.

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For the IRU of the Federal Criminal Police Office, today's day of action is part of the task of discovering terrorist online content and reporting it for deletion. From October 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019, a total of 12,872 links were reported to online service providers with a request for deletion.

In around 60 percent of cases (7,665 links), the Internet service providers complied with these deletion requests because they followed the BKA's argument that the content violated the site operators' terms and conditions. Particularly within the framework of international cooperation with a wide range of Internet service providers, the BKA is trying to increase understanding among providers and thus constantly increase the deletion rate of terrorist online content.

Sven Kurenbach, Head of the Terrorism/Extremism Department (TE):

“The risk of Islamist-motivated attacks in Germany remains high. This is shown, among other things, by the number of over 670 Islamist threats registered nationwide. These people are particularly susceptible to propaganda. But even innocent people, especially young people, can be radicalized by Islamist texts and videos.

That's why it's important that this content is not even available on the Internet. The BKA contributes to this with the National IRU – and thus takes on an important task in prevention.”

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Source: Federal Criminal Police Office
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