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How much of that page is in fact "fact"?

They call Germany's team that picked up the kids a "SWAT" team, even though Germany doesn't have a SWAT team, Germany has GSG9 which is solely used for anti-terror operations. I also wouldn't call a team that includes social workers a SWAT-team.

This sentence alone shows that this article was only written to rile up emotions:

>At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a “brutal and vicious act,”

Who has called it an act like that? The HSLDA itself, no-one else.

I also can't find anything on this in German news, so there are no secondary sources, so no way to verify their claims yet.

tl;dr: There are no facts yet.

Edit: Just remembered, there's also the SEK, the Spezialeinsatzkommando, which are the German state police's special police to handle barricaded suspects - may have been in use here, but again, I'd highly doubt they'd be accompanied by social workers.




Germany has GSG9 which is solely used for anti-terror operations.

This isn't strictly true since the GSG9 can and occasionally has been deployed in what are pretty much domestic criminal cases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSG9#Publicly_known_missions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladbeck_hostage_crisis#18_Augu...

Not that it changes the absence of other sources. I couldn't find anything about it in German either - at least, not anything that wasn't a year old and from advocacy sites as well. Nor do I think it's terribly likely BPOL unit showed up somewhere to handle a Jugendamt case.


I would conjecture that the reason for overwhelming force here is a reasonable guess that people who don't recognize the government's authority to enforce laws might attempt armed resistance, especially where their children are concerned. Swift and overwhelming force lowers the risk of anyone (government or citizen) actually getting violent.

That doesn't necessarily justify the trauma of getting raided, but it would make sense if that's why they did it.




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