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"Shouldn't make us even more dependent on autocratic states"

The Greens have opposed a possible purchase of Chinese drones for German civil protection.

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"Shouldn't make us even more dependent on autocratic states"

The Greens have opposed a possible purchase of Chinese drones for German civil protection. "We think that's a bad idea," Green Party leader Omid Nouripour said in Berlin on Monday. He referred to relevant media reports.

According to a report by NDR and WDR, the Federal Ministry of the Interior wants to procure more than 60 drones to explore disaster areas. According to the research, devices from a Chinese company are expressly desired. The drones should therefore help the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) in exploring disaster areas and searching for missing persons.

According to the report, drone systems of the type DJI Matrice 300 should be procured. According to the report, a spokesman for the SPD-led Federal Ministry of the Interior defended the plans. However, no bid has yet been granted.

Nouripur said after a meeting of party bodies, "It is wrong to buy from a regime that we know uses electronics massively in this country for surveillance." who are so critical, make us even more dependent on autocratic states and dictatorships.” The coalition will talk about it.

Technology from the Chinese company concerned should also be used in China to monitor so-called re-education camps in areas of the Uyghur minority, Nouripour said.

In the USA, the debate about the problem of such drone purchases is already ongoing. "We don't always have to reinvent the wheel," said Nouripour. "We just have to see where we ended up when we didn't reduce these dependencies, when it was still possible in the case of fossils from Russia," said the Greens leader, referring to earlier German gas imports from Russia.

According to the report, a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said: "For the area of ​​civil protection, there are currently no concerns about the use of drones due to the application requirements and the areas of application." The procurement of the drones mentioned expands the operational capability of the Technical Relief Agency for situation management in Germany Domestic civil protection and disaster control.

At the urging of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), the cabinet recently decided that a Chinese company could take a stake in a terminal in the port of Hamburg. However, planned deals by Chinese investors with German electronics companies were stopped by the government.

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