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Shopping street in focus: BAO Zeil reveals the limits of political security strategies
Frankfurt's Zeil in focus: Police enforce zero tolerance in the city centre – but behind the operations lies a warning sign of years of political failure. Shoplifting, violence and drug-related incidents have turned the popular shopping street into a hotspot. With the...
Post-quantum cryptography at the edge: How new security architectures address high risks
The development of powerful quantum computers is considered a technological milestone, but at the same time poses a fundamental threat to established security mechanisms. Methods such as RSA or ECC, on which large parts of today’s digital security are based, could be...
Terrorism: Commentary: Consistent resistance to digital radicalisation is a security policy imperative
The available findings on the so-called ‘terror gram scene’ clearly show that this is not a marginal phenomenon, but an acute and dynamic threat to internal security. When Home Secretary Thomas Strobl states that the digital space must not be ‘a legal vacuum, a...
How teenagers become terrorists: World’s first criminological study on the German ‘terrorist scene’
The Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office, in cooperation with the public prosecutor's offices in Stuttgart and Munich, has conducted the first comprehensive criminological evaluation of investigation files on the so-called ‘terrorist scene’. The most...
Commentary: BERLIN – Known risks, familiar words, familiar failures
The power outage in Berlin since 3 January 2026 is extraordinary in its scale, but remarkably familiar in its causes and political consequences. Five damaged high-voltage cables, tens of thousands of households without electricity and heating, restrictions on mobile...
Commentary: Hesse’s clear stance against left-wing extremism
In his statement, Hesse's Interior Minister Roman Poseck paints a deliberately clear picture of left-wing extremism as a threat to security. The core of his position is clear: left-wing extremism is not understood as a marginal phenomenon or merely a side issue of...
Positive safety record at Bavaria’s Christmas markets
Successful protection concepts combining presence, prevention and cooperation At the end of the 2025 Christmas market season, the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior reports a thoroughly positive safety record. Home Secretary Joachim Herrmann spoke of...
Comment: More powers, more security? Interim assessment of the Hessian police law reform
One year after the reform of the Hessian Law on Public Safety and Order (HSOG) came into force, Interior Minister Roman Poseck gives a clearly positive interim assessment. According to the minister, the expanded powers of the police have been effective, are being...
