“What about authenticity? This is circulating on the internet”
This is how countless inquiries begin about an image that is currently making the rounds on Facebook: From summer 2018, will the police be allowed to tap telephones and break into information systems, access storage media, delete and change data and, if necessary, break into apartments?
Is that correct?
Our colleague Thomas L., from the mimikama.Team, has this Theme already on February 16, 2018 closer illuminated, in his article he wrote that the Bavarian police could be given new powers and that this was not a hoax!
A draft law by Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann would allow the Bavarian police to put suspects in prison theoretically indefinitely only on suspicion, to force citizens to (not) stay in certain places, to use informants and to open the mail.
The state government's “draft law for the more effective surveillance of dangerous people ,” which the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann presented to the state parliament on Wednesday, February 14, 2018, provides for comprehensive new powers for the Bavarian police. If the law is passed - which is likely since the CSU has an absolute majority in all relevant committees and in the state parliament - the Bavarian police would be given secret service powers.
The so-called Police Tasks Act – PAG for short – in its current form would enable the police to:
Sharp criticism of the law
Criminal lawyers criticize the draft law as unconstitutional because it undermines important fundamental rights that are protected by the constitution. The police are given far too many powers, which endangers the separation of powers, criticizes Claudia Stamm, a member of the Bavarian state parliament. Bavaria's Interior Minister Herrmann defends the law: "The most efficient defense against danger is to prevent it from arising in the first place," he is quoted by the SZ .
CSU accuses critics of disinformation
In an emergency motion dated April 25, 2018, members of the state parliament accused their opponents (including the SPD, the FDP and the GREENS) of “joining forces with left-wing extremists and other anti-constitutional organizations.” This application speaks of an unprecedented disinformation campaign on social media.
This application is publicly available at www.bayern.landtag.de .
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