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Germany introducing new counter-terrorism police unit
[Ynet] Germany is introducing a new police unit in the wake of the deadly attacks in Gay Paree that officials say will be better armed and trained to deal with terrorism.Some 250 more officers will be added to the national police force's special arrest units, known as the BFE, and based at five locations around the country. Unlike the country's elite GSG9 SWAT teams that are only deployed as emergency response units, the so-called BFE+ police will also be involved in day-to-day operations. Police union front man Rainer Wendt says additional specially trained officers are "money well spent" but told the dpa news agency ordinary patrol officers also must be properly equipped to deal with terrorism. Germany Says Overestimated Migrants with Fake Syrian Passports [AnNahar] The proportion of people entering Germany with fake Syrian passports is far less than the 30 percent announced by the interior minister in September, the government has said. Germany has to date maintained an open-door policy for Syrians escaping their country's bloodshed, giving them "primary protection" -- the highest status for refugees. Among other benefits, this status includes a three-year residence permit and family reunification. The policy has sparked controversy, heightened after Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in September that up to 30 percent of people were found coming into Germany with false Syrian passports and actually came from other nations. He said the figures were based on estimates from people working on the ground. But in response to a question from the left-wing Die Linke party, the government said in a written note obtained by Agence La Belle France Presse late Monday that only eight percent of the 6,822 Syrian passports examined by authorities between January and October were actually found to be fake.
Germany is Europe's top destination for refugees, most of whom travel through ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the Balkans, and expects more than one million arrivals this year. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-17 |
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