BERLIN, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The German government is mulling a new anti-terror law to make it easier to prosecute terrorist suspects.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her grand coalition of conservatives and Social Democrats have already agreed on such a bill, according to an article published Monday in German news magazine Der Spiegel.
It would allow Germany's intelligence agencies and the police to access bank accounts of terrorist suspects and a nationwide database of car owners.
The bill would also make it easier to prosecute suspects across the European Union.
German intelligence agencies would be able to issue a covert warrant via the Schengen information system and the border police of other countries would have to report to Germany when, where and under what circumstances a warranted suspect crossed a border.
The current anti-terror law, introduced after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, is limited to a few years. Conservatives want the new law to remain in effect indefinitely, but the Social Democrats are against that, Der Spiegel said.
