A German politician, Dirk Wiese, the vice chairman of the SPD faction, has called for a cross-party agreement on internal security in the wake of the violent incident in Munich. Wiese stated that the heinous act in Munich has struck at our hearts and our sense of security once more and that it is the duty of the hour to take direct flights to Afghanistan to repatriate asylum seekers who are required to leave the country. The politician emphasized that there is no room for ideologies or moral maximalism in this matter.
Wiese appealed to the democratic parties to join in agreeing on modern powers for the country’s security agencies. He placed the right to store IP addresses lawfully at the top of the list, as well as the automated analysis of data and the subsequent biometric matching with publicly accessible internet data to identify and locate suspects.
According to Wiese, these regulations must finally be enabled in an unideological and pragmatic manner. “This can only be achieved by the democratic forces working together” he said. The SPD politician also urgently called for the more effective enforcement of legal rules, stating that the past attacks have revealed significant deficits. “The strictest laws are only effective if the implementation, above all in the states, improves in the future. Where it makes sense, we need a closer cooperation and better coordination between the federal government and the states.