KJM approves Widas ID's ‘cidaas ID validator’ and IN Groupe's overall concept ‘IN ID’ The Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (https://www.kjm-online.de/) (KJM) has rated the ‘cidaas ID validator’ from Widas ID (https://www.widas.de/) and the overall...
Politics
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...
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...
Baden-Württemberg: State Data Protection Act to be amended
The Baden-Württemberg Council of Ministers has approved an amendment to the State Data Protection Act proposed by Interior Minister Thomas Strobl. The aim of the reform is to provide legal certainty for the use of digital technologies in administration, research and...
Giessen in Germany Is Not Startbahn West in Frankfurt— And Thanks to the Police, It Better Stay That Way
If Interior Minister Roman Poseck’s post-Giessen analysis accomplishes anything, it’s reminding us that German protest culture occasionally likes to cosplay its own history. And not the charming parts. No—somewhere between the vegan food trucks and the cardboard...
Container handling in Europe slips
RWI and ISL researchers note third consecutive decline in latest flash estimate According to a flash estimate, the Container Throughput Index (https://www.rwi-essen.de/containerindex) of the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (https://www.rwi-essen.de) and...
Focus on the importance of cooperation and innovation
Herrmann at the Security and Innovation Forum at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg At the Security and Innovation Forum at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) on Monday, Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann emphasised the...
