Meanings
- The German federal office of criminal investigations.
Thirty-three simultaneous raids by the Bundeskriminalamt - the German equivalent of the FBI - targeted feminist activists who have researched and spoken out against reproductive and genetic engineering.
1988 April 2, Lori Kenschaft, “German feminists rounded up”, in Gay Community News, page 61 more example
The global team, spearheaded by the German Federal Criminal Police – the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) – included the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and law enforcement agencies from the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Canada and the United States.
2021 May 3, James Frater and Claudia Otto, “German police bust child sex abuse imagery network with 400,000 users”, in CNN
Origin
- GermanBundeskriminalamt
- EnglishBundeskriminalamt
Borrowed from German Bundeskriminalamt.
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