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Legal Notice 161

The incident which was presented at Legal Notice 160 happened at around 14:00, on 01/10/2020, at Konstanz, Germany. According to my knowledge, Police may control only the identification data of a citizen, only when there are reasonable suspicions that a specific crime may had been committed and they may designate which might be that crime. Therefore, demanding for sensitive personal data, like the computer’s serial-number, or the WiFi Mac-address, from a citizen without having an warrant, most probably, constitutes, the least, excessive zealous, on the Police officers behalf.

This probable “overarching” of Police authority combined, with my existing differences of political views with the German government, about the “Prespes agreement” and about supplying advanced German submarines to the rogue Turkey, and with the consequences of the May 21th, 1949 treaty, made me worry about my personal security. For this reason, as I usually do in such occasions for preventive reasons (better safe than sorry), I made an exhaustive inventory of all of my belongings in order to see, if anything is missing, or, if any foreign object is included without my knowledge. And I found out that, few few old and almost exhausted stationary products, namely two ballpoint pens and a pencil eraser, which I kept as auxiliary stationary, they were inexplicitly missing from my bags. The police control was certainly unrelated to the missing objects.

Later, at around 18:30 at the same day, a pedestrian Police patrol of four uniformed officers saw me walking in Konstanz and they performed one more Police control. After my formal identity card was checked and verified, one police officer asked me if I had with me “any illegal or dangerous objects”. As being an experienced Greek political refuge and for obvious reasons, I answered, by using exclusively positive terms that, “everything I have with me is, exclusively, legal and safe”. It seems that, for some reason, my answer didn’t satisfied the officer who asked me the same question two more times. I answered two more times again by using only positive terms. Finally, the officer asked me, “come on, where do you have the pepper-spray and the teaser-gun?”. There is no earthly force that could had made me repeat these negative names, thus I repeated my, including positive terms, previous answer. Then, the officers told me that I was free to leave.

After the conclusion of the second Police control, I, urgently recharged the battery of my “Radpberry Pi” single-board computer, I bought some groceries from the supermarket and I rushed to depart from Germany towards a neighbouring country.

Christos Boumpoulis

economist

Appendix

Legal Notice 160

Abstract: Police control of my computers’ identification data.

Legal Notice 160

Earlier, today 01/10/2020 I was sitting on a public artistic-bench while working on my single-board computer “Raspberry Pi”.

Two unknown to me, non-uniformed men came to me and showed two thick-paper identity cards that “Polizei” was printed on them and they appeared as probably being genuine Police identity cards.

After they having examined my formal identity card, they examined my “Raspberry Pi” computer’s back cover as if they were looking for my computer’s identification data. There weren’t such data there.

Then, they asked to check the “serial-number” of my laptop computer which I kept in my briefcase and which I don’t use because of a technical problem.

They copied some data which they were printed on the back side of my second computer including, its serial-number, the model-identification, identification of its WiFi circuitry (the Mac-Address is not printed there), etc.

Christos Boumpoulis

economist