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The German Criminal Police Agency, the BKA, continues to keep a register of Sinti & Roma in its database, along the ethnic lines, and even lied to the special agent appointed with overseeing the Data Protection Act in Germany by denying that such records were being kept. It would appear, from what could be disseminated from the information, that the "Office for the Combating of the Gypsy Menace" that was run by the predecessor of the BKA, the Reichsicherheitshauptamt, is being continued to this very day. Rumor has it that the recording of Sinti & Roma under an ethnic header does not just happen when those commit a crime but, apparently, already when they, for instance, apply for a "Gewerbeschein", a "traders license", to follow whatever itinerant trade they may wish to follow and, so again rumor has it, that such records do not just stop at the individual person but extend to his entire family. Nothing new in that either, it would appear, if that is the case. More...
The German Criminal Police Agency, the BKA, continues to keep a register of Sinti & Roma in its database, along the ethnic lines, and even lied to the special agent appointed with overseeing the Data Protection Act in Germany by denying that such records were being kept. It would appear, from what could be disseminated from the information, that the "Office for the Combating of the Gypsy Menace" that was run by the predecessor of the BKA, the Reichsicherheitshauptamt, is being continued to this very day. Rumor has it that the recording of Sinti & Roma under an ethnic header does not just happen when those commit a crime but, apparently, already when they, for instance, apply for a "Gewerbeschein", a "traders license", to follow whatever itinerant trade they may wish to follow and, so again rumor has it, that such records do not just stop at the individual person but extend to his entire family. Nothing new in that either, it would appear, if that is the case. More...
