#NoPAG mural to promote a demo in Munich at 11am on 18 June against the PAG (Bavarian Police Duties Act 2018), an authoritarian law that gives cops extensive powers to "preventatively" detain people.
Since the PAG came into force, migrants in particular have been taken into police custody without legal assistance. Demonstrators and climate activists have also been taken into so-called preventive detention for several weeks.
With the 2018 PAG amendment, the Bavarian state government introduced the concept of "impending danger", significantly expanding the legal basis for arbitrary detention by police. The police may monitor phone calls or email traffic even without a specific reference to criminal behavior.
The Bavarian PAG is an expression of an increasingly repressive society. Starting with increasingly stringent legislation against demonstrators up to an inhumane approach against refugees at the external borders.