Photo: DPAAuthorities will in the future be allowed to take the fingerprints of refugee children as a young as six when they first enter Germany, interior ministers agreed on Wednesday. State and federal interior ministers, who met in Dresden on Wednesday, said that the current minimum age for taking the fingerprints of a child would be lowered from 14 to six. The interior ministers agreed that police will in the future have the power to hack into messaging systems when they are investigating particularly serious crimes. Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière (CDU) said he hoped to introduce the changes into the legal code before the end of this parliament. But a proposal at the conference by Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann went too far even for his colleagues.

Source: The Local June 15, 2017 15:33 UTC