[SOLAR_FIELDS]

Is there a link somewhere to a summary of what happened here? A lot of context is missing that is only coming from the comments in bits and pieces. For instance the only thing I was able to gather from the comments is that there was some potential police overreach where someone who collects donations was raided because the recipient is involved in some illegal/terroristic bomb related activity. Seems like a lot of nuance is missing here.

[xashor]

Zwiebelfreunde is an organization associated with the CCC that do Tor related stuff. They collect donations for RiseUp, an US based mail/web/… hoster. One site RiseUp hosts calls for action against a far right political party. Next to various info, it has instructions on how to build color bombs and other solely property damage stuff.

This was enough justification for the bavarian police to raid Zwiebelfreunde and various other hacker spaces and persons linked to them[1]. To illustrate how overreaching the police was: When the Zwiebelfreunde's hacker space was raided they found this 3d printed model of a bomb[0], which of course is just a plastic toy. However, they accused the people in hacker space of planning a bombing, so they could seize more stuff.

[0] https://www.thueringen24.de/img/incoming/crop214771927/17338...

[1] https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zw...

[tedunangst]

> To illustrate how overreaching the police was: When the Zwiebelfreunde's hacker space was raided they found this 3d printed model of a bomb[0], which of course is just a plastic toy. However, they accused the people in hacker space of planning a bombing, so they could seize more stuff.

Not saying they did have plans for a bombing, but if I were planning one, I would have a few toy bombs around to practice with. Definitely not going to try fitting a live bomb into a backpack to see if it fits...

[detaro]

And you'd have that "toy bomb" look like a downscaled version of a air-dropped bomb from ww2, seriously? If it is only roughly the size, just use a soda can or something like that?

[xashor]

You don't need perfect looks to see if it fits. I can think of a better model, but I don't want to post instructions on how to build toy bombs. Could be dangerous around here. :-)