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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is advocating for criminal police to be given the power to conduct covert house searches in certain cases, a draft bill showed on Wednesday. The bill, which is under discussion by the German government, would allow officers from Germany’s Criminal Police Office (BKA) to search houses covertly in the case of a “concrete threat of a terrorist attack.” The BKA search would require a court order and only be permitted if it were the only method of averting an imminent danger without seriously jeopardizing the success of a criminal investigation, the bill says. …

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