Overview

• The draft law must now clear the Bundestag and Bundesrat before it can become effective.
• It establishes a standalone offense for explosive-theft attacks under the revised explosives statute.
• Minimum sentences rise to two years for ATM bombings and to five years when serious injury occurs, with penalties up to 15 years.
• Investigators gain expanded telecom surveillance rights and the power to seize unauthorized explosive precursors.
• The proposal builds on May’s Dutch-led operation that arrested five suspects linked to bombings in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia.