Overview
- Cem Özdemir, the Greens’ lead candidate in Baden‑Württemberg, called for simple local rules to deploy video monitoring at identified trouble spots.
- He urged scaling AI‑assisted pilot projects modeled on Mannheim’s intelligent surveillance system.
- Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt advocated in the Bundestag for more cameras at train stations and for updating decades‑old policing statutes.
- The draft reform would grant the Bundespolizei telecommunications surveillance, the ability to seek detention for deportable foreigners, and random checks in weapon and knife ban zones.
- The Left party denounced the measures, warning the package moves Germany toward authoritarianism and a surveillance state.