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German official wants to tag known hard boyz
Known Islamic militants should be electronically tagged so their movements can be tracked, a regional German interior minister proposed on Wednesday.âThis would allow us to monitor the roughly 3,000 Islamists who are prone to violence, hate preachers and fighters trained in terrorist camps,â Lower Saxony Interior Minister Uwe Schuenemann said in an interview with Die Welt newspaper. âHate preachersâ is how Germans describe radical Muslim clerics. Schuenemann said electronic tagging was a viable alternative to holding suspected militants in protective custody, a proposal floated by former German interior minister Otto Schily. It would not be against Germanyâs constitution, he was quoted as saying. âItâs practical for all Islamists who are prone to violence and who we canât expel to their home countries because they could be tortured,â said Schuenemann. Germanyâs federal and state governments share responsibility for security services. Under Germanyâs federal system, states have a great deal of control over their internal security operations and routine policing. Britainâs government also proposed electronic tagging of terror suspects in July as an alternative to jailing them without charge. Electronic tagging of criminals has become widespread in Britain where much of the work being outsourced to private companies such as Serco Group Plc. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-12-29 |
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