<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="title"><h2><a href="http://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/servers-duitse-piratenpartij-gevorderd-door-politie-2-dagen-voor-de-verkiezingen/" rel="bookmark">Servers Duitse Piratenpartij gevorderd door politie – 2 dagen voor de verkiezingen.</a></h2>
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<div class="entry"><p><em>(Pour la version française de ce communiqué, cliquez </em><a href="http://partipirate.org/blog/com.php?id=1399"><em>ici</em></a><em>).</em></p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>Until now, <strong>their Board does not expect deliquency on behalf of the German Pirate Party</strong>
: 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, <strong>they will publish all the details in all transparency and details as soon as they have affirmed information</strong>.</p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>The French Pirate Party</p><p>—</p><p>Nederlandse versie volgt wanneer iemand de tijd heeft.</p><p>P.S Het betreft de pads..... ( Die ook door bijv. Anonymous gebruikt worden. ) </p></div></div></body></html>