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Germany: forced DNA finger printing

01 January 1998

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A woman has been forced by the police to give a saliva sample in order to establish a genetic fingerprint. In November last year, police raided a flat following an incident where a shop window was smashed in Gottingen where old Wehrmacht photos have been used as advertisements. The woman who happened to be in the flat was brought to the police station for what she believed would be the usual identification procedure (fingerprints, photo). DNA fingerprinting falls into a "grey zone" in Germany and has so far only been used in family reunifications of refugees. Neither police powers regarding DNA fingerprinting nor the administration of DNA data banks has (yet) been regulated legally.

Rote Hilfe, no 1, 1998.

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