China operates two “overseas police stations” in Germany. Europeans want to develop a “new generation of fighter jets” – and Tokyo is involved

The German security authorities assume that there are two “overseas police stations” in Germany, which are mainly used to investigate and influence the Chinese diaspora.

“As far as the federal government is aware, there are two so-called ‘overseas police stations’ in Germany,” the government said in a response to a written question from Unattached Member of Parliament Joana Cotar, which was available to the German press. Desk.

These are currently considered to be “organised rather personal and mobile, no permanent offices have been set up,” says the German government. According to dpa information, five ‘area managers’ offered Chinese and Germans with Chinese roots legal advice and support with certifications and applications.

The background of this help, which mainly took place via chats, is said to be the acquisition of knowledge and the dissemination of philosophical guidelines. According to this statement, both Chinese and German citizens are among the “area managers”, one of whom is said to be based in Berlin. Your offer would have been used by several thousand people.

The “overseas police stations” would be “supported by individuals from the Chinese diaspora who come from classic emigration regions,” the German government wrote in its response. The Chinese authorities had no executive power on German soil.

The federal government is in consultation with the Chinese embassy about this. According to dpa information, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has written a protest note. The structures should be “dissolved immediately,” Cotar demanded. Just having an “exchange” about it is “a bad joke”.

The German Interior Ministry said when asked: “The federal security authorities have been monitoring the existence of such facilities for some time as part of their legal responsibilities and are vigorously following up on any leads.” To this end, there is also a close and direct exchange of information between the security authorities of the federal government and the federal states.

The human rights organization “Safeguard Defenders”, based in Madrid, drew attention to the facilities that would exist in many countries. According to her, they serve, among other things, to prosecute critics of the Chinese leadership. Beijing denied this and spoke of pure service agencies that would issue new driver’s licenses to foreign Chinese, for example. (cpf/sda/dpa)