Overview

• Herbert Reul has said the new intelligence law, set for Landtag debate this week, will give the Verfassungsschutz expanded rights to intercept encrypted communications and trace financial and travel data.
• Starting this summer, NRW will deploy an AI-powered technology container in the Cologne region and assign 100 officers to digital patrol units in major cities, with an additional 15 posts for cyber investigators.
• The police will for the first time maintain a registry of Islamist preachers and social media influencers deemed to pose extremist risks.
• The security package, backed by €95.5 million and 228 new posts, also fast-tracks asylum chambers, extends Dublin return windows and installs violence prevention coordinators in every state shelter.
• Opposition parties have decried the programme as too slow and superficial while the trial of suspect Issa al H., charged with three murders and alleged IS membership, continues in Düsseldorf.