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New law about DNA analysis in Germany

Gabriel Borrud
December 20, 2016

What can DNA tell us about what an unknown perpetrator looks like? A whole lot, but only if the law allows it. Germany has some of the strictest legislation with regard to how DNA analysis can be used. Why? DW talks to Peter Schneider, the head of Germany's Spurenkommission, an umbrella group of the country's leading forensic institutions.

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