Lower Saxony & Bremen
Lower Saxony wants to examine the constitutional protection judgment closely
4/26/2022, 6:06 p.m
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Karlsruhe/Hannover (dpa/lni) – Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) wants to check whether the Karlsruhe judgment on excessive constitutional protection powers in Bavaria may have an impact on corresponding legislation in Lower Saxony. Pistorius said that the verdict and in particular the reasoning behind the verdict would be looked at very closely.
On Tuesday, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe objected to a number of provisions in Bavaria’s Constitutional Protection Act, which had been fundamentally revised in 2016 at the request of the CSU.
“My house was well advised to deal very carefully with the demands for even more far-reaching intelligence intervention powers,” emphasized Pistorius in retrospect. Among other things, the regulations on “online searches” and “surveillance of living space” in the Bavarian Constitutional Protection Act were declared unconstitutional.
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