Many thanks to Hermes for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
A complete transcript is below the jump:
| 00:01 | In recent months FAKT went deeper into this | |
| 00:05 | secret project, making terrifying discoveries. | |
| 00:09 | Contrary to what the government says, these images | |
| 00:13 | prove that federal police work not for the government, | |
| 00:17 | but hand-in-hand with the military company EADS. | |
| 00:21 | German officers and company workers share an office, | |
| 00:25 | make their training plans together. They are a team | |
| 00:29 | in a project of millions. The military company | |
| 00:33 | has sold a huge border-protecting facility to the Saudis, | |
| 00:37 | with infrared cameras, ground radar, locating systems | |
| 00:41 | and a surveillance centre, and the German police | |
| 00:45 | are a part of the deal. | |
| 00:49 | This is very clearly an EADS project, | |
| 00:53 | and the federal police are just contractors of EADS, | |
| 00:57 | German officers serving a military company. | |
| 01:01 | But this is not all. After having confirmed a great | |
| 01:05 | number of irregularities at the training project, | |
| 01:09 | new investigations by FAKT revealed a new problem. | |
| 01:13 | The Saudi religious police work in the entire project. | |
| 01:17 | They are part of the border surveillance, have a fixed place | |
| 01:21 | in the operational centre of the high-tech border. | |
| 01:25 | There is a leading officer in this surveillance room, | |
| 01:29 | and in addition a representative of the religious police, who | |
| 01:33 | has a fix place there, and also makes decisions. | |
| 01:37 | The Saudi religious police are very brutal, irregular; | |
| 01:41 | they put sharia law into practice through violence. | |
| 01:45 | Countless human rights abuses are attributed to them. | |
| 01:49 | The Interior Ministry explained to an inquiry by FAKT | |
| 01:53 | that no religious police were taking part in the | |
| 01:57 | training courses, but this is a half-truth, because | |
| 02:01 | the guardians of religion have another task: with the commanding officer | |
| 02:05 | they determine the faith of people | |
| 02:09 | caught at the border. For Amnesty International, | |
| 02:13 | the Saudi religious police are the worst human | |
| 02:17 | rights violators in the world. The religious police | |
| 02:21 | are part of the inner security forces in Saudi Arabia. | |
| 02:25 | They work closely with the police, and they maintain | |
| 02:29 | the population in fear and oppression. | |
| 02:33 | They put sharia into practice in everyday life. | |
| 02:37 | They join mainly as volunteers. They are | |
| 02:41 | totally irregular, and immune from prosecution. | |
| 02:45 | For the German officers the presence of the | |
| 02:49 | religious police in the whole project is no secret, | |
| 02:53 | as this photo leaked by FAKT proves. There was | |
| 02:57 | no rejection by the federal police, as there was by part of | |
| 03:01 | the hardline Salafists. The brutality | |
| 03:05 | of the religious police is very well known to | |
| 03:09 | the German officers. According to colleagues who | |
| 03:13 | personally took part in executions in Riyadh, there | |
| 03:17 | have been stonings, the amputation of hands, beheadings. | |
| 03:21 | And all with a sense that it was natural to carry this out | |
| 03:25 | even with foreigners looking on. German | |
| 03:29 | officers at executions, this is the seeming reality | |
| 03:33 | to which the German government silently surrenders, | |
| 03:37 | a government which has clearly established legal strictures: | |
| 03:41 | in this project, German officers must submit to Saudi law. | |
| 03:45 | To speak clearly, the basis for cooperation is the Islamic | |
| 03:49 | law, the sharia. | |
| 03:52 | A completely dark project, and we must fear that | |
| 03:57 | human rights violations are being committed. | |
| 04:01 | The federal government must eventually disclose what | |
| 04:05 | is really happening. And I fear that it cannot affirm | |
| 04:09 | that it won't contribute to violations of human rights. | |
| 04:13 | The entire project is outrageous, German federal | |
| 04:17 | police are being hired by a military company, they | |
| 04:21 | train security forces in techniques which can be used | |
| 04:25 | to silence the opposition, and among the trainees, | |
| 04:29 | there are Saudi secret service agents, and last but not | |
| 04:33 | least, the religious police are a fixed part of the project. | |
| 04:37 | For the opposition, these conditions became unbearable. | |
| 04:41 | They call for the withdrawal of the officers. | |
| 04:45 | There's a general conception among the opposition: | |
| 04:49 | away with Saudi Arabia | |
| 04:53 | and out of this police mission. | |
| 04:57 | But the government is not thinking of a withdrawal. | |
| 05:01 | Quite the opposite; the project will be expanded. | |
| 05:05 | The job advertisements at the federal police | |
| 05:09 | are already being issued. |
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