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Submitted by thetinytoon on Friday May 20 2011, @08:07AM

thetinytoon writes "The servers of the german pirate party have been raided and taken offline by the german police, after the french police asked the german officials for help in a lawcase. According to a police' spokesman, the case is not targeting the Pirate Party itself and that they cannot disclose any further details at this time.

Interesting bit is: If the german Pirate Party itself or a member of the party is not the target of the investigation, why did the police take down a complete democratic party's infrastructure?

Hashtag for followers of the events is already there: #servergate."
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UPDATE: Offical Statement of the Pirate Party (Score:2)

by thetinytoon (827176) writes:

Here is the official statement of the German Pirate Party in english (scroll down a few lines) http://vorstand.piratenpartei.de/2011/05/20/polizei-beschlagnahmt-server-der-piratenpartei-deutschland/ [piratenpartei.de]
Too much taken down at the wrong time (Score:1)

by Valio (2182724) writes:

The Pirate Party Germany participates in 2 days at the elections in Bremen. The alleged anonymous attack shall have been only coordinated by the Piratenpad service. However more than just that server was taken down. What was the intent behind that? It's almost a bit hard to believe that it's all coincidence...
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  by Husgaard (858362) writes:
  
  Please note that the election in Bremen are not just municipal elections in the city of Bremen. The election on Sunday is in the German federal state of Bremen. Before this happened the Pirate Party had a real chance of getting elected on Sunday. But now all of the infrastructure they used for the election has been confiscated. Member lists, task and event planning, election plans - all confiscated.
Rick Falkvinge writes about this in English (Score:2)

by Husgaard (858362) writes:

http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/20/german-pirate-partys-servers-confiscated-in-police-raid-two-days-before-election/ [falkvinge.net]

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Police raids German Pirate Party's servers

UPDATE: Offical Statement of the Pirate Party (Score:2)

Too much taken down at the wrong time (Score:1)

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Rick Falkvinge writes about this in English (Score:2)