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Re: One specific error of yours -- Jim Top of thread Post Reply Forum
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aunt bea ®

12/27/2016, 09:26:21
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I am not interesting in joining this discussion, but you should at least get your facts straight. The Bundespolizei, the German equivalent of the FBI released the name and picture of the suspect. This was then published in German and I suppose international media right away.

What this article refers to but frames to appear as something else, is that the Hamburg politician Steffen delayed release of the image of the suspect on the website of the Hamburg police. So while his decision might be questioned, its consequences were trivial. The Hamburg police would have had the picture anyway and the public would have had the picture from the media.

This was also an isolated incident relating only to the police website in that particular city and perhaps one other. In general the picture was released all over.

To put this in context, unlike in the US, in Germany the pictures and names of suspects are almost never made public before that person is found guilty in a trial. So this was a big exception and I guess some kind of special permission is required.






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