In the case of the terrorists Anis Amri, more and more people to scuba diving- the ultimate tip. What drives this fee forces for the security of the state and the police authorities? Experts provide information.
For the chief of the Berlin criminal police, it was no Surprise when he was confronted a few days ago with Reports of a possible former Snitch of his authority as a Salafist Hotspot known Fussilet mosque. If and when there was this V-man of the land office of criminal investigation (LKA) in the vicinity of the mosque could, and he could not say, however, said criminal investigation chief head Christian Steiof in the investigation Committee of the Berlin house of representatives to the Islamist terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas market. There was for many years V-people in the field of Islamism combat. Concrete V-people and places he didn’t know.
According to media information, an Anti-terrorist Department of the criminal investigation Bureau led a V-Person that had any contact with the mosque. It is not the first V-man, in the case of anise Amri. It is known that V-people of the LKA North Rhine-Westphalia, the Federal criminal police office and the Federal office for constitutional wrong protection in the mosque. The Fussilet-mosque in Berlin-Moabit was also attended by Amri. 19. December 2016, he perpetrated a terrorist attack on the Christmas market – in this case, twelve people were killed and more than 70 injured. But no V-man was able to give the decisive tip.
Anis Amri drove this truck in December of 2016, in a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin – 12 people died
Nevertheless, the LKA Berlin would have been ill-advised to install a V-man says ARD-terrorism expert Holger Schmidt in an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW). He would expect the security authorities, because the range of Islamism fighting was highly relevant to safety.
Three different types of
V-people are in in – and foreign intelligence services. In Germany, the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution, the Constitution protection offices of the länder and the Federal intelligence service (BND). The police are also working with hidden information donors – but, in contrast to the intelligence services, the police are not violations of the authorities quite so free in their dealings with their Agents in act: So you would have to determine, for example, faster and earlier, if you would know of the crimes of their V-men, says terrorism expert Schmidt.
In General, three types of information to be donors for services and the police authorities distinguish between:
1. The Informant , the authorities sporadically tips.
2. The cooperation with V-people or the person of trust (VP) in the medium to long term. He or she originates mostly from the Milieu to be observed.
3. The Undercover investigator is an officer or employee of the investigating authority, in the respective Milieus.
Be used to V-people in the most diverse environments: organized crime in the red light milieu, in the drug trade, in the left – and right-wing extremist scenes, as well as in the fight against violent Islamism.
Knows the world of intelligence: author and journalist Michael Mueller
Each V or VP is assigned in the authority of a so-called VP-leader. “This VP-leaders typically have a relatively free Hand. Within the authority of V-people with the deck names or numbers,” says Michael Mueller, an expert on the Federal news service and the author of several publications on intelligence in the DW-interview. VP-leaders played the role of the nice friend, don’t forget the birthday and also in life crises. A VP-leaders could lead to up to eight V-men. This punishment will be respected as to the fact that the different V-to meet people, says Mueller.
So, as you know it from the cinema
In the normal case services and the police authorities are active in the respective Milieus, according to informants. Incentives for employees can be very different. ARD-terrorism expert, Schmidt tells of a case in which the diploma of the son, the faster it should be acknowledged. It will, however, also threatened: “We will see you denigrate the youth welfare office and report how you treat your child,” says Schmidt. It was already so, as you know it from the cinema, he says. In the criminal environment V be addressed people directly in the prison and recruited. Prisoners, in this way, Custody relief, or negotiate Deals for the upcoming processes.
In the rarer case of the V-people to offer their services to the authority. “These are the so-called self-providers,” says Schmidt. For the intelligence services and public authorities, in the worst case, because there is always the Motivation has to be questioned. In most cases, you want money or attention or both. And that the super-informant voluntarily to the investigating and intelligence agencies to offer his services, to be the absolute exception, he says.
BKA leads confidential price list for V-people
In the case of the payment of V-men, there are no rules. “The a gets 300 euros a day, the other 100 Euro for a tip, and the third gets nothing because he does not want to feel bought – presents for the children are popular,” says terrorism expert Schmidt.
The website of the weekly magazine “Stern” reports of a confidential 25-page list of “General principles for the payment of informants or informant” with the Signet of the Federal criminal police office (BKA). It States that “financial incentives” need to be created, “because of the recourse to VP and informants is often more cost-effective than the use of other instruments”. In the area of drug crime apply, depending on the current Wholesale and distributor prices – in the position of drug at the following rates: 130 Euro per Kilo of hashish (from 20 kilos: 78 Euro per Kilo), 1540 Euro per Kilo of Heroin or cocaine (from ten pounds: 1030 euros per Kilo, 20 Kilo: 260 euros per Kilo). The BKA is also important: “The VP/, the Informant is instructed as to a possible duty to report to the labor and social offices”, – stated in the paper, such as stern.de reported.
“We know only of the scandals”
Intelligence services and police authorities are in favour of the use of V-men. But makes you use really make sense? “We can only speculate, since we know from the news of the success of the constitutional protection of. We learn of the scandals and the failed inserts”, Steffen Kailitz from the Hannah-Arendt Institute for the research of Totalitarianism at the Technical University of Dresden. Kailitz has engaged intensively with the use of V-people at the first NPD prohibition proceedings.
Wolfgang Frenz, a former Vice-Chairman of the NRW-NPD. Frenz worked for 30 years as V-man for the protection of the Constitution
These procedures were by the Federal constitutional court on 18. March 2003 for procedural reasons have been set, because V-people of the constitutional protection management level were in the NPD. Wolfgang Frenz, a former NPD Deputy Chairman of North Rhine turned out to be-Westphalia, loaded officially procedure as one of the most important information people in the Karlsruhe ban, as a superbly-placed V-man of the constitutional protection. Up to 1995, more than 30 years, he delivered for a monthly fee of 600 to 800 Mark information on the inside of the right-wing party life. Frenz wants to have directed his spy pay to the party Fund. Critics outraged: in order To ensure the protection of the state have supported on blamable kind of an anti-constitutional party.
Due to this experience, the NPD prohibition proceedings expert Kailitz is against the use of V-people in case of monitoring the AfD by the protection of the Constitution.