Dobrindt on the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: “I want it to become a real secret service” | EUROtoday

According to Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), the federal authorities desires to supply a “very high” sum for details about these chargeable for the suspected left-wing extremist arson assault on Berlin’s electrical energy provide. In the night, Dobrindt neither needed to verify nor deny data from Berlin’s Interior Senator Iris Spranger that one million euro reward had been provided.

However, within the ntv speak present “Pinar Atalay,” Dobrindt emphasised that he anticipated that with a really excessive reward, all alternatives can be used to “take a closer look at” these left-wing extremist teams, of which there are a number of. A search idea in opposition to the group shall be offered this Tuesday. Then the reward may also play a task.

“These left-wing groups that spread terror here”

The concentrate on the phenomenon of left-wing extremism has not been enough thus far, stated Dobrindt. “We’re catching up on that now, and that’s why it includes collecting information and a high reward.” They hope for assist from the inhabitants with a view to “identify these left-wing groups, these people who are spreading terror here.” Three weeks in the past, the facility provide to 45,000 Berlin households was paralyzed for days by the assault.

Dobrindt introduced that he would broaden the Office for the Protection of the Constitution – even past the pure intelligence service. “I want it to become a real secret service. That means it also has operational capabilities, not just collecting intelligence, but also taking operational action against it when it has intelligence.” It entails considerably extra workers, stated Dobrindt and added: “We also have to enable our services to use new investigative methods, for example in the digital area.”

The Bundestag is at the moment discussing a reform of authorized laws to guard essential infrastructure. According to the federal authorities’s proposal, operators ought to in future must report incidents and develop plans to cope with each conceivable threat. Dobrindt sees the so-called Kritis umbrella legislation as a second pillar of safety.

According to Dobrindt, the type of transparency in essential infrastructure should even be decreased. This shall be mentioned within the coalition committee this week: “In my view, it cannot be the case that people who want to carry out attacks can, with publicly available information, select and identify the attack target with which they will cause the most damage.”