(Pour la version française de ce communiqué, cliquez ici).
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This Friday, May the 20th, in the morning, the German police confiscated multiple servers from the German Pirate Party, for a police investigation issued from France.
The German Pirate Party has stated that they will support, within their legal obligations, the French authorities in their investigation. Access to the technical infrastructure has already been provided as far as necessary for the investigation. Therefore, the tergeted search for specific datasets should quickly be established.
Until now, their Board does not expect deliquency on behalf of the German Pirate Party : only one single public service on a virtual server of the party would be affected. The results of this investigation are « expected with curiosity » by our German counterparts, and accordingly to the foundations of the Pirate movement, they will publish all the details in all transparency and details as soon as they have affirmed information.
The Board does not have information that indicate the necessity to take all servers of the German Pirate Party off-line, only one single public service on a virtual server of the party being affected by the investigation. The cut-off of all servers is a huge intrusion inside of the communications infrastructure of the sixth largest political party in Germany.
As state elections will take place in less than two days in Bremen, this disproportionate cut-off for the needs of a police investigation has already caused huge media damage to the German Pirate Party. Our counterparts have strongly condemned it, before apologizing for the inconvenience.
The French Pirate Party supports the German Pirate Party and condemns this disproportionate attempt to freedoms of speach and communication of a political party on the eve of an election.
We will follow with attention the progess of the investigation, and will check in particular that the issued search warrant was delivered in proportionnaly with what the investigators were aware of, and that data seized by the authorities were truly linked to the investigation needs.
The French Pirate Party
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