LAB 6 - Prosecutor’s responses

19 November 2015 - 11.00-12.30 - Room 11, Palais de l'Europe, Interpretation: FR/EN/RU

What is the Prosecutor’s role in acknowledging and investigating mass surveillance and how useful is surveillance really for the prosecutor’s work of detecting criminals and terrorists?

Initiative 1

Investigation of mass surveillance and prosecution of cyber- crimes - Challenges or failed expectations?

Edward Snowdens disclosures, illegal wire taping of mobile-phones, not only used by politicians, and possible activities of secret services using methods of mass surveillance - the public called for a response through investigation and prosecution. On the other hand, investigation units stress the need to collect mass data-base to prohibit and detect criminals and terrorists. These two sides of the coin will be presented, enlightened and disussed.

Presenter(s)

Mr Harald RANGE, Germany, Former Attorney General of Germany

Mr. Harald Range was the Federal Public Prosecutor attached to the Federal High Court of Germany (2011-2015). He has been holding different positions in the prosecution services in the German land of Lower Saxony, including Prosecutor General and director of the criminal departement of the Ministry of Justice there. As Head of the Federal Public Prosecution he was responsible for the investigation in cases of Espionage and Terrorism and other severe crimes against state's interests. He was president of the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) and is the German national representative in the CCPE.

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Discussants

Discussants are invited to take part in the Labs in order to share their experience with the presented democratic initiatives and try to bring broader perspectives to the following discussions.

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Mr Cédric VISART DE BOCARME, Belgium, President of the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors of the Council of Europe

Since January 2015, Mr Visart de Bocarme is President of the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) of the Council of Europe. In 2011, he had been appointed Head of the Private Office of the Ministry of Interior and at the end of 2012, he integrated the international section of the Federal State Crown office where he still is excising his functions as Prosecutor. Mr Visart de Bocarme represented the Belgian public prosecution service at the Eurojustice conferences in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He represents Belgium and is a member of the Forum of Prosecutors of the European Union since its creation in 2010. Mr Visart de Bocarme was appointed Principal Crown Prosecutor at the Liège Court of Appeal in 2005 for a mandate of 7 years. He chaired the College of general prosecutors of Belgium from 2006 to 2009.

Moderator

Mr Alexander SEGER, Germany, Head of Cybercrime Division, Council of Europe

Alexander Seger has been with the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France) since 1999. He is Executive Secretary of the Committee of the Parties to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and heading the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) in Bucharest, Romania, which is responsible for global capacity building on cybercrime. Before 1999, he was with what now is the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna/Austria, Laos and Pakistan. Alexander Seger is from Germany and holds a PhD in political science, law and social anthropology after studies in Heidelberg, Bordeaux and Bonn.

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Cartoonist

Ms Aline ROLLIN