Security

The international police organization Interpol warns of a global wave of crime in connection with the delivery of the Covid-19 vaccine. Interpol General Secretary Stock sees thefts from storage rooms or attacks on transport routes as the greatest risk.

Criminal groups thought about how money could be made with the corona pandemic at an early stage. Fake vaccines are already being sold on the Internet.

The Berlin police draw new hope in the theft of the 100kg "Big Maple Leaf" gold coin from the Bode Museum in 2017. During searches of jewelers in Berlin-Neukölln, the police arrested several people and seized counterfeit coins and amounts of money.

The police hoped that the measure would enable them to find pieces of the gold coin.

Some of the alleged perpetrators have already been legally convicted.

The Berlin Senator for the Interior Andres Geisel has presented the new concept for the fight against terrorism in the capital. Four years after the attack on Breitscheidplatz, the cooperation between security authorities is to be strengthened, cell phone data is to be evaluated more easily and prevention measures are to be promoted.

The new concept "SAVE" (first letters of the German words for: Protect, Enlighten, Prevent and Contain) is intended to support this.

The deadly beating by the local authorities of a Ukrainian man at the Lisbon airport last month passed relatively under the radar. Journalists from Portuguese newspapers DN and Público published numerous follow-ups until the chief of the Immigration and Borders Office decided to step down.

Due to the corona pandemic, the Munich security conference planned for February 2021 will be postponed indefinitely. Conference chairman Ischinger emphasized the necessity of a physical meeting, which is why no alternative date can be named so far.

One photo showed that the dark station wagon was standing directly in front of the closed gate in an otherwise cordoned-off area. Written there was "Stop the globalization policy", on the other side "You damned murderers of children and old people". According to the license plate, the car is registered in the district of Lippe in North Rhine-Westphalia. The motive is still unclear.

The public prosecutor's office is certain that the Berlin Remmo clan is responsible for the break-in in the Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden. The Dresden Higher Regional Court has already issued arrest warrants against two provisionally arrested suspects, two perpetrators on the run.

During the searches carried out in Berlin on Tuesday, it is still uncertain whether parts of the loot were found.

According to three people familiar with agency staffing, over 130 officers of the Secret Service that are tasked with protecting the White House and President Donald Trump have been ordered to quarantine. An undisclosed number of these officers have tested positive for Covid-19 or been in contact with co-workers who are infected.

As a consequence of the attack in Vienna, the German police union ("Gewerkschaft der Polizei") is demanding that people who pose a risk to society are monitored by federal authorities in the future.

Complete monitoring of potential terrorists is no longer possible due to the lack of personnel at the state level.

Berlin currently counts 88 Islamists, whose surveillance would require 2,640 officials. The land has 190 at its disposal.

On Saturday evening, a cleaner in a Hamburg Sparkasse branch informed the private security service after noticing something inexplicable.

Alarmed police officers were able to secure an industrial drill in the basement of the bank, with which the unknown perpetrators had apparently tried to drill open the safe.

There are currently no references to the perpetrators.

There was a police operation off the British coast on Sunday afternoon. British military has boeaded the ship and detained seven stowaways after the crew had been threatened by them. The authorities set up an exclusion zone around the tanker several miles.

The British Ministry of Defense has stated that "Armed forces have gained control of the ship and seven individuals have been detained,".

According to court documents, investigators found evidence on Internet searches that the young man had been involved in plans to kill Joe Biden and have found several weapons, including an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a canister of explosives, during the search of his vehicle.

On a weapons tour In April, the teenager is also said to have published a memo entitled "Should I kill Joe Biden?" and he also traveled across the country to get various weapons, and searched the Internet for information about Biden's home address, U.S. federal gun laws, and night vision goggles. At one point, the 19-year-old was near Biden's home in New Hampshire. A to-do list was also found that ended with the word "execute".

Staff shortages at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution could become a security risk. Due to additional tasks such as the security check for other authorities (e.g. Federal Police), the internal security check for employees can only be carried out with a considerable delay.

The checks can be delayed for up to four years which could pose significant risks in the integrity of the authority.

In 2019 a YouTube video had surfaced in which a violent attack by security forces on asylum seekers could be seen. It had been filmed at the Central Contact Point for refugees in Saxony-Anhalt and the public prosecutor has now charged the security forces with bodily harm.

The video showed that security forces first separated two quarreling refugees, but then kicked them lying on the floor.

The proceedings will be conducted before the Halberstadt District Court.

According to a survey by the children's aid organization "Plan" among 1,000 respondents between 16 and 71 years of age, the fear of harassment, threats, and insults is great. Big cities like Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne or Munich stand out here. One in five respondents stated in the survey that they had been the victim of a crime such as insults, threats or harassment. Girls and women feel most unsafe on the open street, followed directly by public transport and parks.

A 70-year-old former security firm accountant was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence on Wednesday. She had embezzled around €120,000 between 2013 and 2018 and used the money to pay private bills. Most of the money has been paid back already.

A video that was posted online on Twitter during the weekend shows a ticket inspector from Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB), who had a man lying on the ground in a stranglehold for more than a minute.

Passersby tried to stop the ticket inspector from doing so, but he only let go shortly before the police arrived. After viewing the video material from the corresponding tram, the LVB initially suspended the employee from duty and condemned the behavior of the employee. Police are investigating.

The technical shortcomings at the Green Vault (German: "Grünes Gewölbe") in Dresden were known longer than previously thought. The managing director of the Saxon Real Estate and Construction Management (SIB) announced in a press interview that an exchange of the surveillance cameras had already been decided at the end of 2018. Due to complicated planning and ordering conditions, the exchange was only possible one and a half years later.

According to the current state of the investigation, the public prosecutor and the police assume that the perpetrators knew about this security vulnerability and were actively exploiting it. In 2019, 20 single pieces of the three larger jewel sets containing 100 pieces in total were stolen.

A security guard and his dog have been attacked by two unknown perpetrators during an inspection tour in a shopping center. The men hit the guard with an object and after he went down, the strangers kicked the dog. Both suspects are unknown and still fugitive.

An Austrian court is currently investigating a potential data scandal. The background is the lawsuit against a former police officer who is said to have carried out more than 90 inquiries from the police network for no official reason.

In court, he defended himself that he only checked security company employees. The judgment is still pending.