According to Moritz Bartl, one of the board members, "*there's a long history of police using that kind of data to investigate social structures; who's working where, who's involved in which projects, so we have to assume that they are looking into the social networks of people*" ([[Source|https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor-linked-groups-board-members/]]).
The raid has been strongly criticized by [German media](http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-netzaktivisten-chaos-computer-club-kritisiert-polizeivorgehen-a-1216463.html)and [digital rights activists](https://netzpolitik.org/2018/zwiebelfreunde-durchsuchungen-wenn-zeugen-wie-straftaeter-behandelt-werden/)as being [disproportionate](https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg).
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Read more about the case and find links to international press coverage on [Zwiebelfreunde's blog](https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html).