The Department of the Interior of the German state of Hesse confirmed Saturday that they are investigating the possible presence of a secret Chinese police station operating illegally in the city of Frankfurt.
«The Hessian authorities are investigating whether there is a Chinese service bureau or police station in Frankfurt,» a spokesman for the Hessian Interior Department explained.
However, the spokesman did not disclose whether there is concrete evidence about the existence of the location, mentioned on Wednesday by Dutch media.
The news pointed to the existence of illegal Chinese police stations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam to operate police work and illegally gather information for Beijing.
The NGO Safeguard Defenders is dedicated to documenting and denouncing human rights violations in China, but has recently published a report and a map of alleged illegal Chinese police stations outside Chinese territory, including one in Frankfurt, two in Madrid, two in Barcelona and one each in Valencia and Santiago de Compostela.
The text, published in September, claims that there are up to 110 illegal Chinese police headquarters around the world.
