Nancy Faeser said the country was battling internal and external threats — including espionage attempts from a trio of countries — with the department thwarting bomb attempts in the last year.
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00:00Germany's national security remains tense, according to the country's interior minister.
00:06Nancy Faeser said at a press conference in Berlin this week that measures to thwart internal
00:11and external political attacks have ramped up.
00:14It comes as her agency hands down its annual report for 2023.
00:30The President of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution also
00:50mentioned increasing far-right and far-left defences.
01:21Meanwhile, eight individuals faced court in Munich this week over allegations they were
01:27involved in a violent plot to overthrow the German government.
01:31The group are part of a larger pool of 26 far-right affiliated defendants accused of
01:37scheming to storm national parliament and arrested lawmakers, according to prosecutors.