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The commission of inquiry, headed by Ingeborg Zerbes, professor of criminal law, will present the first results in four weeks and a final report at the end of January. Zadic said that the Ministry of the Interior and Justice will analyze what can be published together with the Commission. In any case, a confidentiality agreement should allow the members of the commission to inspect all relevant documents. There should also be interviews with “relevant people”.
According to Zadic, the former Munich police chief Hubertus Andrä was called in because he had experience in terrorist attacks. His appointment to the commission had nothing to do with the controversial practice of detention for security reasons in Bavaria, the minister said. He made it known that preventive detention of this type would not have been necessary for the attacker on 2 November. “He could have been locked up again quickly,” the justice minister said, referring to information about the 20-year-old Islamist that was not transmitted to the judiciary by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (keyword: failed purchase of ammunition in Slovakia).
The government announced Wednesday that it would seek a human rights-compliant way to prevent terrorist criminals from getting out of jail. This is generally used for “mentally abnormal lawbreakers.” On the other hand, the existing possibility of locking up dangerous repeat offenders is rarely used in the implementation of measures. However, a minimum age of 24 applies here, and the offender must also be a repeat offender of violent, sexual, property, or drug-related crimes. Now it will be examined whether this possibility could be extended to crimes of terrorism.
Zadic wants to take this opportunity to reform the implementation of measures. More experts and a different system are needed to check if someone is “mentally abnormal” or not. In the end, the reform that had been planned for some time has always failed because of the money: “I have high hopes of getting it.”
Zadic has made it clear that the package of measures planned by the government does not foresee a separate prosecutor’s office to combat terrorism. Rather, according to the minister, the creation of groups specialized in terrorist crimes is foreseen within the existing prosecutor’s offices.
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