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Racial Profiling: Police search migrant people in Frankfurt
The Frankfurt police apparently specifically check migrant young men, search their cell phones and photograph those checked. The accusation of carrying out racist controls
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The Frankfurt police apparently specifically check migrant young men, search their cell phones and photograph those checked. She denies the accusation of carrying out racist controls.
In the last few days, the Hessian police have carried out almost 1,000 identity checks on Frankfurt's Zeil shopping mile and apparently also searched cell phones. According to media reports, the police specifically target male, migrant teenagers and young adults.
The Hessian Interior Minister Roman Poseck (CDU) cites the riots on October 31st as the reason for the action. Poseck had, above all, in the aftermath of the eventhttps://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/balance-der-ausschreitungen-in-frankf...“Migrant milieu” was blamed for the riots, this statement was fromhttps://correctiv.org/aktuelles/protest/2026/11/05/migrantisches-milieu-...Page https://www.fr.de/politik/spd-org26325/nach-frankfurt-krawallen-poseck-w...criticized for racismbeen.
Undeterred by the criticism, there are now apparently more controls against young people and adults who read as migrants. Onehttps://www.fr.de/frankfurt/racial-profiling-vorwuerfe-gegen-frankfurter...according to the Frankfurter RundschauDuring these checks, the police searched cell phones and media galleries, apparently to find images of the riots.
The lawyer Johannes Koch, quoted in the FR, says that in checks that are independent of suspicion, only the identity of the person being checked may be determined. However, the police are not allowed to search them against their will.
According to city parliamentarian Deniz Avan (Left Party), the police told the young people that they could exonerate themselves if they showed the cell phones. The police justified the checks to Avan as a “direct follow-up” to the riots.
In a report by thehttps://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/polizeikontrollen-nach-krawallen...There is talk of the police photographing people being checked against their will.
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Lawyer believes measures are illegal
The Frankfurt lawyer Johannes Koch considers the measures taken against the Frankfurter Rundschau to be unlawful. Personal checks always require legal legitimation, he told the medium. The lawyer considers the “voluntary cell phone checks” to be a waste of time. “Due to the threat environment, I am of the opinion that a free formation of will was not possible,” the FR quoted the lawyer as saying.
Both Deniz Avan andhttps://www.instagram.com/emretely/p/DfabVgIiIUo/?img_index=1">derGreen city councilor Emre Telyakartalk about the suspicion of racial profiling. Under the termhttps://mediendienst-integration.de/news/fragen-und- Answeren-zu-racial-...manpolice measures that are based, for example, on the appearance and origin of people. The Frankfurt police reject this accusation against the FR.
It is not the first time that the Frankfurt police have carried out crowd controls on the shopping street.https://www.rheinmainverlag.de/2026/10/24/frankfurter-zeil-wird-sicherer...the Hessian Ministry of the InteriorThe police carried out eleven so-called “Action Days” between November 2025 and October 2026 and checked more than 2,800 people.
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