Most clan members cannot be deported at all
A man is taken away by police with a blanket over his head during a raid. Overall, the police assigned 582 people to clan crime
Berlin is considered the capital of crime. Now the police have published their new clan situation picture. Almost half of all suspects have German citizenship. However, another observation is particularly alarming: links between the extremist Islamist milieu and the clan criminal milieu.
In Berlin the clan scene has deepened. This is also reflected in the latest police situation report, which WELT AM SONNTAG is available in advance. Accordingly, there has been a slight increase in registered crimes in this particular area of organized crime. And a new link with other criminal organizations is worrying investigators.
Last year were in Berlin 872 crimes related to clan crime registered. That was compared to last year’s one slight increase of 23 acts. Among them were 125 fraud offences, 122 traffic offences, 120 brutality offences, and 56 gun threats. According to the situation report 2020 more than 1000 crimes recorded in the field of clan crime. However, violations of the Infection Protection Act were also counted in the statistics at the time.
According to the police, all suspects registered in Berlin last year were 303 people in the field of clan crime attributed. 52 suspects were charged with five or more crimes. Out sticks out 22 year old clan member a large family known to the police, who, according to the police, last year 43 offenses were charged, including robbery, theft and money laundering.
“We lack the belief that Ms. Faeser has the strength to push this through”
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to deport members of criminal clans without committing a crime. Stefan Heck from the CDU and member of the federal executive board: “We have seen a whole series of suggestions from her, which have all come to nothing.”
Source: WELT/ Alexander Siemon
Overall, the police even calculates 582 people in the capital to the structures of criminal extended families, including 30 women. These clan members have all made at least one appearance to the police. According to the situation picture 260 of them the German nationalityat 109 people is the nationality unclear and 87 are Lebanese. Investigators also refer to these numbers in the current debate about possible deportations of clan members, which Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) had initiated. Because apart from legal questions, when exactly someone is a clan member, most criminals could not be deported at all because they were either born in Germany, their origin is unclear or the people come from countries that do not want to take their citizens back.
For Outstanding Clan Crime of 2022 the Berlin police list the murder of Mohamed Rabih in their situation report. The intensive offender was attacked and killed by several perpetrators at a folk festival, the Neuköllner Maientage, in April last year.
His brother Nidal Rabih, also an intensive offender, had been publicly killed a few years earlier in front of his family just a few hundred meters away on Tempelhofer Feld. According to the police, the perpetrators and suspects of these two murders also come from a “polycriminal” background.
The investigators also paid particular attention to the rental of cars. Accordingly, there are about in Berlin 60 car rental companiesthat are associated with clan crime. These vehicles are said to have been used specifically to commit crimes. The often unclear ownership of the vehicles and the incomplete documentation favored this.
The investigators describe one observation in the new situation report as particularly alarming. For example, isolated connections between the extremist Islamist spectrum and the clan criminal spectrum have been identified. According to information from WELT AM SONNTAG from investigative circles, it is about financial donations for radical Islamists.
Berlin has been practicing a policy of small pinpricks since 2018. This means that the police, customs and regulatory authorities regularly go on joint operations. While critics call these operations a show, investigators say they illuminate structure. Last year, the Berlin police led 160 of these control missions through, 84 in the group with other authorities. The police were there Searched more than 600 sisha bars, cafes and casinos and among others 47 weapons, 82 gambling machines and 34 vehicles confiscated. As part of these missions it came to 502 criminal chargesof that 173 violations against the Narcotics and Drugs Act. In addition, 1,723 administrative offense proceedings initiated.
Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) said on the occasion of the new situation report: “A crime phenomenon that has been able to develop over 30 years must be fought continuously and consistently at all levels.” It is said that these isolated structures, which the German legal system reject, break up and ultimately dissolve. In order to do that, you have to get the money. “I just remember the 77 properties that were confiscated in 2018,” Spranger continued.
At that time, Berlin had confiscated and confiscated buildings belonging to the Remmo clan. Members of the Remmos were sentenced for spectacular acts such as breaking into the Bode Museum in Berlin and the Green Vault in Dresden. “With the confiscation of assets, we are hitting where it is felt, because prison sentences often have no preventive or resocializing effect,” says Spranger. However, the state also has its limits when it comes to confiscating assets.
Italy is seen as a role model for an effective fight against organized crime. There is a reversal of the burden of proof in the fight against the mafia. A suspect who has no income but purchases real estate worth millions must prove where he got the money from. Spranger announced that as chair of the conference of interior ministers, he would discuss “this important component” of the fight against crime.
