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It is about the brutal collection of debts, drugs and fraud in the clan environment. Investigators at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office have been on the trail of a gang for a year. Now, the police took action against 36 people in the case of the crime of the clan early Thursday morning. The focus is on the Abou Chaker clan, but lawyers, notaries and real estate agents should also be involved.
500 officers, including heavily armed forces from the Berlin Special Operations Command (SEK) and GSG 9 of the Federal Police, moved in to search 33 objects in Berlin and Hamburg.
In addition, three arrest warrants were executed that, according to the Public Ministry, imply fraud. An elderly couple is said to have been stripped of their property in Berlin, a property valued at more than three million euros.
The defendants are said to have relocated the home in Friedrichshain themselves with the help of forged identity documents and forged powers of attorney from self-employed business owners. It is also said that they misled the cadastre. Other suspects are said to have been involved in the plans to sell the property.
Criminal association: suspicion gives investigators more rigorous means
The Berlin prosecutor’s office is investigating the suspicion of the formation of a criminal organization: this is a new quality in the fight against organized crime within the clan scene. With this accusation, investigators can use harsher means against suspects. The corresponding paragraph 129 of the Penal Code defines a criminal organization as an association of more than two people in pursuit of a primary common interest.
According to information from Tagesspiegel, the process should involve real estate transactions. The prosecution is investigating 36 suspects. Two clan families are said to be affected. Above all, the famous Abou Chaker clan is in the sights of the authorities. “Bild” and “Spiegel TV” reported on this first.
Investigators also focus on Hells Angels from Wedding
In addition to the clan men, the gang is said to have involved suspects from the realm of traditional organized crime and white-collar crime. Cross connections to the rocker half are also examined. Members of the Weddinger Hells Angels are said to be among those involved, a German who served as the group’s henchman. Another central figure is said to be a well-known person from the Berlin underworld, who is supposed to play a “leading role” as a mediator in organized crime in Berlin.
The gang is suspected of making significant gains through so-called violent debt collection, that is, brutal debt collection, as well as through fraud and drug deals, a spokesman for the prosecution said. Property was also seized during the search.
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The focus of the mission was Berlin. Objects were registered in Charlottenburg, Mitte and Spandau. Berlin’s traffic information center tweeted in the morning: “Due to investigations against organized crime, currently there may be traffic restrictions throughout the entire city area.”
Interior Senator Andreas Geisel thanked the emergency services involved in the morning. “We are resolutely and consistently taking action against all forms of crime at all levels with all instruments of the rule of law,” said the SPD politician.
Already in September I assaulted Abou-Chaker
Only in September was there a raid against clan chief Arafat Abou-Chaker and others, some of whom are attributed to organized crime. It was said at the time that he was being investigated on suspicion of tax evasion, fraud and money laundering. Assets for several million euros were insured.
The prosecutor spoke of the suspicion of “tax offenses largely related to management services in the ‘rapeseed scenario'”. In addition, it is about the complaint of fraud in relation to organized crime.
The raid was triggered by the findings of the trial against Arafat Abou-Chaker before the regional court. There he is charged with deprivation of liberty, attempted gross blackmail, dangerous bodily injury and coercion. The brothers are accused of being accomplices or accomplices.
The clan chief did not want rapper Bushido to withdraw from the common business. Arafat Abou-Chaker, the best known member of the clan, is now in the dock for his anti-Bushido methods.
Breaking into the Green Vault is also assigned to a clan.
In many cases, men from known clans, most of whom came to Germany from Lebanon before the Wall came down, committed spectacular crimes. After the theft in the Dresden Green Vault, men of the Remmo clan from Berlin-Neukölln are sought.
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Because these perpetrators often act like gangs – in the strict sense of the word as “family ties” – individual clans’ branches are assigned to an “ethnically isolated subculture” by the Federal Office of Criminal Police (BKA), which is classified as a form of organized crime (OK). The accomplices belong to a large family, men from other clans, even from other ethnic groups, serve as henchmen.
Some families are known throughout Germany, which does not mean that all citizens of this surname are criminals or are related to criminals. However: in Berlin, the men of the Abou-Chaker, Remmo, Rabih, Al-Zein, Charour and Omeirat families are tried repeatedly, although the spelling may vary because the often scarce Lebanese documents have been translated poorly. different in German offices. .
20 percent of OK procedures in Berlin concern German-Arab clans
Figures from the BKA’s current status report “Organized Crime” show that German-Arab large families accounted for only 7.8 percent of organized crime investigations in 2019. In Berlin, however, as announced by local authorities in 2018, more than 20 percent, that is, 14 of the 68 court proceedings, concerned German-Arab families.
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And these are just procedures that deal with serious, mostly commercial and gang crimes – organized crime. Assault, coercion, sex crimes, simple robbery, occasional robberies, traffic violations, and even minor fraud are not necessarily recorded as correct acts. In some cases, the men of the clan were able to turn to well-connected accomplices of the German petty bourgeoisie.
The crime of clan of Arab origin has solidified in Berlin
According to the BKA, Berlin is one of those federal states in which the structures of the criminal clans have been “solidified in a special way”. According to the management report, seven organized crime investigations were carried out against clan criminals in Berlin in 2019.
Even if a quarter of the 836 suspects in 45 nationwide proceedings have German citizenship, according to the BKA they have “a corresponding ethnic origin”, that is, “of Arab origin” or “of Turkish origin”, as stated in the management report. Twenty percent of the suspects were Lebanese, followed by Turks and Syrians.
Of the seven organized crime proceedings carried out in Berlin in 2019 in the area of clan crime, six were against members of families of Arab origin. In addition to the 45 CO procedures for clan crimes across the country, there are 26 additional procedures in which contacts were made with groups of CO clan criminals.
Rejection of the German legal system and unwillingness to integrate
According to the BKA, clan crime goes hand in hand with “their own set of values and the fundamental rejection of the German legal system.” Above all there is a “strong focus on the hierarchical-patriarchal family structure” and a “lack of will to integrate.”
In addition, clan criminals by “provoking escalations even on trivial occasions or minor legal violations”, a high degree of violence and tumult in the public, as the Wiesbaden authority found.
According to BKA figures, organized crime groups caused at least a loss of 1.6 million euros in clan crime in 2019. Through their machinations, they are said to have made a profit of 3.6 million euros.
In addition, according to the BKA, there is more damage and criminal income of millions of members of large families of Arab and Turkish origin that are not related to the crime of the clan. It deals with drug trafficking, theft, robbery, white collar crimes and money laundering.
Chechens in particular compete with the German-Arab clans
Arab clans, whose members also sometimes publicly declare that they are guided solely by “family honor,” compete with other less conspicuous bands. In addition to the numerous Arab families, the men of Chechnya are mainly active and, less frequently, entire families.
The networks of Poland, the Balkans and the Baltic countries are also active at the CO level. According to investigators, Chechen men in particular want to earn money from arms and drug trafficking, organized car theft, forced prostitution and smuggling.
More recently, men from Russia’s Muslim Autonomous Region in the South Caucasus fought a battle with the extended Remmo family in Berlin. After numerous serious injuries, ex-professional boxer Mahmoud Omeirat Charr mediated.
