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After several terrorist attacks in Germany over the past year ended in tragedy, the country is working to find a balance between privacy and potentially life-saving surveillance. A pilot project testing face recognition technology in Berlin's busy Sudkreuz train station has been scanning faces of passengers for the past 6 months and comparing them to a database of volunteer criminals. About 300 volunteers submitted photos to the project and agreed to allow their faces to be recognized by the system if they transited the station.
Images at the start of the trial against Bjorn Hoecke, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia, who appears in court for publicly using a banned Nazi slogan. He stands accused of twice using the phrase "Alles fuer Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany"), once a motto of the so-called Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in Frankfurt to protest against the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD). A nation-wide wave of mobilisation against AfD was sparked by a January 10 report by investigative outlet Correctiv revealing that AfD members had discussed the expulsion of immigrants and "non-assimilated citizens" at a meeting with extremists. IMAGES
People gather outside the Reichstag building in Berlin, forming a symbolic fire-wall against the political far-right. The rally follows a wave of protests that has swept across Germany in recent weeks as people oppose the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. IMAGES
Tens of thousands take part in a protest against the far right in Hamburg, the latest in a recent wave of demonstrations in Germany against the anti-immigration AfD party after revelations that AfD members discussed the mass expulsions of immigrants in meeting with extremists. IMAGES
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