Another group within Germany's security structures has been found to be inclined toward Nazi imagery. Recklinghausen officials are concerned by this incident, the second in recent months.
  • Stinkywinks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    1 year ago

    No one is surprised. People don’t join the police to serve the people, they join it to bully them. We all know the gems attracted to positions like that.

    • deur@feddit.nlEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Not sure if you noticed dear American, but if you look reaaallly closely you’ll see that they are GERMAN police and not your flavor of pyscho garbage roleplaying as law enforcement.

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    It never surprises me when nazis and cp are used in the same sentence. If this was us conservative and republicans would be part of that sentence too.

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 year ago

    “The allegations shocked me. In criminal law, the presumption of innocence also applies here. Nevertheless, the allegations are so serious that after examining each individual case, I immediately banned the three officers from conducting official business,” Friederike Zurhausen, the police chief of Recklinghausen, said in a statement.

    This police chief did more than most do.

    • DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      131·
      1 year ago

      I have to wonder if things like child porn among law enforcement is a sort of test to see if the others are as committed to disregarding the law. If you say nothing, you have viewed and are currently in possession of child pornography in your chats, which becomes leverage. If you report it, you are outed as a nark and will become a target.

  • ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    So… how did they find this? No background information provided for this story. By the end of the article they no longer found it, it was an accusation?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Prosecutors in Germany have uncovered illegal content including Nazi symbols in chat messages involving five officers from three different police districts.

    The five men, aged 22 and 25, are suspected to have exchanged Nazi symbols in chats and possessed child pornography during their training, according to Annette Milk, the chief public prosecutor investigating the case.

    Nevertheless, the allegations are so serious that after examining each individual case, I immediately banned the three officers from conducting official business," Friederike Zurhausen, the police chief of Recklinghausen, said in a statement.

    “Young civil servants, like older ones, must stand up for justice, law and the values of our constitution without a shadow of a doubt,” he continued.

    Several far-right terror attacks in 2019 and early 2020 prompted German authorities to warn of escalating extremism, which led to these hate-speech laws being tightened last year.

    According to the latest ministry information from the end of July, the North Rhine-Westphalian police have suspended or penalised 105 incidents of right-wing extremist behavior over the past six years.

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