After the decision of the Kammergericht, it is now open what will happen to the collected data from 77 "screened" People happens
The Berlin Court of Appeals has ruled that the highly controversial dragnet search for potential Islamic terrorist attackers, initiated by the country’s police president in September 2001 after the attacks on New York and Washington, was legal. In a decision published yesterday, Monday, it states that it is not a matter of a present and concrete danger to carry out such a search with a coarse sieve on a computer basis. In the last instance, the judges thus diametrically opposed their colleagues at the Regional Court, who had ied a contrary ruling in January, declaring the dragnet inadmissible in view of an unproven acute danger situation (dragnet in Berlin declared inadmissible).
The search history after "Sleepers", The fact that the two groups of people, who up to now have lived an apparently normal everyday life as students, for example, and could thus at most be conspicuous by commonalities in their lives, is thus once again enriched by a contentious chapter in Berlin. It had begun on 17. September with unlegitimized data collection from agencies such as the Hahn-Meitner Institute, the water utilities, as well as universities: the required court order was missing at that time. She was only born on 20. September after an initial rejection of the criminalists’ request and a renewed justification by the police.
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