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The police in Berlin say they are investigating several dozen suspected right-wing extremism cases within their own ranks.
The police in Berlin say they are investigating several dozen suspected right-wing extremism cases within their own ranks.
Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik told the newspaper "Die Welt" that almost 40 disciplinary proceedings are currently being conducted because of such allegations. Half of these proceedings are conducted with the aim of "dismissing those affected from service".
Despite the administrative courts' high hurdles when dismissing civil servants, she assumes "that we are right in at least some cases," said Slowik. The vast majority of police officers in the capital are not extremist, she emphasized:
"Of the 26,000 police in Berlin, 99.9 percent are firmly committed to the Basic Law." She is "annoyed and angry that a few pollute our reputation so".
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