The government's 10-point plan includes new measures for data retention, preventive detention and the expansion of the surveillance state. The very powers that did not prevent the CSD attack are being expanded. – A comment from Yuri Dolan.

On Wednesday, the federal government approved an action plan against “terrorism and extremism” in the cabinet. Under the motto “Strengthen security, preserve freedom, prevent radicalization – 10-point plan for better protection against Islamist terrorism,” Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig want to expand powers for security and law enforcement authorities and undermine juvenile criminal law.

The federal government sees the Islamic fundamentalist-motivated attack on the city as the reason for the action planChristopher Street Day. Immediately after the attack, the federal government called for a tougher deportation policy and more surveillance. However, the protection of queer people is not addressed in the 10-point plan.

Prosecution of political advertising and fundraising

A key focus of the action plan is changes to the justice system. For example, the criminal offense for “spreading propaganda from anti-constitutional and terrorist organizations” is to be expanded. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the main aim is to introduce stricter regulations against foreign groups that are classified as “terrorist” without an organizational structure in Germany – such as the Islamic State (IS). In addition, bodily harm carried out with weapons or other dangerous tools should be upgraded to a felony with a minimum prison sentence of one year.

The 10-point plan also calls for increased law enforcement to collect donations for organizations classified as terrorist. Financial support for suspected terrorist organizations is already punishable by up to ten years in prison - provided there is already contact with an organization classified as terrorist. This condition should now be deleted: the mere collection of “donations for terrorist purposes” should in future be prosecuted before there is any contact with organizations classified as terrorist.

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The plan to prosecute “donations for terrorist purposes” harbors enormous potential for instrumentalization on the part of the authorities and equips them with further tools of repression. This has devastating consequences, especially for the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany, which is constantly defamed as Islamic fundamentalist and anti-Semitic as a matter of state. In view of the numerous allegations that Palestinian solidarity activists are Hamas supporters, it is conceivable that simple solidarity events at which donations are collected for the victims of the genocide in Gaza could be attributed a terrorist purpose and could therefore be punished under criminal law.

Full rigor in juvenile criminal law

The youth criminal law should also be adapted “quickly” through the action plan. For example, the application of juvenile criminal law should be explicitly justified in the judgment and the so-called “security interest of the general public” should be anchored in the law. As a result, under juvenile criminal law, suspended sentences should only be given if they do not conflict with the safety interests of the general public.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior also sees a “gap” in the youth court’s options for action before a judgment becomes final. So far, temporary measures such as placement in a home or participation in “de-radicalization courses” can only be used for young people. The action plan should now also make this possible for adolescents.

The German Association for Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Court Assistance also sees that long prison sentences in no way ward off the danger potential of young offenders: “That formal, especially custodial, reactions hardly make a contribution to preventing or ending criminal careers, but make a major contribution to solidifying them,”says a position paperon the CDU/CSU's proposals to completely remove adolescents from the juvenile justice system.

CSD attack as a legitimizing backdrop for rearmament

Disguised as “prevention of extremism”, the Interior Ministry would like to target Muslim communities more closely. There is talk of “educational work”, “social prevention” and the “promotion of a democratic understanding of values”. In particular, cooperation with “Muslim actors” for the purpose of prevention work is mentioned. The establishment of “counter- and alternative offers” is planned, especially in the digital space, in order to address young people as “democratic actors with a need for orientation”.

How the federal government is exploiting the CSD attack

The acquisition of information and the exchange of data between the authorities should also be expanded: The well-known data retention appears in the action plan - this time under the guise of "traffic data backup": The storage of IP connection data, which is currently withheld from the federal authorities, should now also be permitted to the state authorities.

The program also calls for “preventive police” orders: “We want better protection against dangerous people to be made possible through greater use of ankle bracelets,” said Federal Interior Minister Dobrindt. In addition, the standards for preventive detention at federal and state levels should be standardized and “used more strongly to avert danger”.

In addition, the exchange of information between security and law enforcement authorities, courts and prisons should be expanded. Investigating authorities should receive “intelligence under threat prevention law”, judicial authorities should be provided with risk assessments from the security authorities and pre-trial detention centers should have to report findings to courts and public prosecutors about “radicalization tendencies”.

At this point at the latest it becomes clear that Dobrindt and Co. are using the CSD attack as a pretext for further official powers. There was by no means a lack of information before the attack: the perpetrator was previously known to the authorities as a so-called “threat” and the police and secret services spoke in fulleight sessionsabout the perpetrator - the last time in May 2026, shortly before his release from prison, when measures for the period afterwards were discussed. During the assessment, he was deemed to be a “high risk,” whereupon numerous authorities – including the BKA, the Federal Prosecutor General, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the youth detention center – worked together.

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A closer exchange between the authorities would not have prevented the attack. Just as there was no data retention: the perpetrator was intensively monitored, including through telephone surveillance and a video camera that filmed his place of residence.

While the federal government is exploiting an attack on queer lives for its own purposes and throwing around empty phrases like “attack on our liberal democracy,” it is cutting funding for counseling centers, giving police protection to anti-queer counter-demonstrations or deporting queer people to countries where they are banned because of their sexualityThere is a risk of death penalty.

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