Germany loosens restrictions on monitoring radicalised teenagers


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Jun 2016

Hans-Georg Maasse, of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), gestures during an interview in Berlin, Germany August 4, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is planning to loosen restrictions that have prevented its intelligence agencies from monitoring radicalised teenagers after several attacks this year by young Islamic extremists exposed flaws in surveillance rules.

According to an amendment to an anti-terror law due to be voted on by parliament on Friday, the age of suspects that Germany's domestic intelligence agency is allowed to track and collect data on will be reduced from 16 to 14.

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