Under the impression of Islamist attacks, the Bavarian state government made a lot of concessions to the protection of the constitution in 2016.
As it turns out, too far.
The mistake, however, as the Federal Constitutional Court explained in its judgment on Monday, was not the whether but the how of the initiative at the time, which was supported solely by the CSU.
It is therefore not enough to accuse the surveillance state again.
It is always popular when it comes to digital means, the keywords in this case are data storage and movement profiles.
It is often suppressed that the same applies here: Observation is a must if it remains proportionate and is checked by an independent party.
Last but not least, the committee of inquiry into the Breitscheid attack has shown that it is not necessarily the lack of funds that leads to the catastrophe, but the lack of coordination and personnel.
You don't need a law to change that.
Tightening up in this direction has so far been called back in case of doubt - data retention and "eavesdropping" have a long tradition in this.
However, the security situation has changed dramatically.
In Karlsruhe, an association has now succeeded with the help of a group of "anti-fascists" who are classified as left-wing extremists.
One day it will be a group that is right-wing extremist.