France puts 78,000 security threats on vast police database

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Last Updated : Apr 04 2018 | 1:50 PM IST

France has flagged more than 78,000 people as security threats in a database intended to let European police share information on the continent's most dangerous residents -- more than all other European countries put together --according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

The data has led to questions about whether the system is being misused, with different countries applying different criteria.

A German parliamentarian, Andrej Hunko, raised the alarm about the European database in a question to his country's Interior Ministry about "discreet checks."

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First Published: Apr 04 2018 | 1:50 PM IST

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