One of those arrested gives the finger Photo: Spreepicture
By Michael Behrendt, Dirk Böttger and Maren Wittge
It was about deprivation of liberty, dangerous bodily harm and threats with weapons! Raid on early Wednesday morning in Berlin!
From 6 a.m., 80 emergency services – including elite police officers from the SEK – searched an apartment on Karl-Marx-Allee (Friedrichshain).
A total of five search warrants were carried out on five suspects (21 to 43). “The operation was a success, evidence was secured,” said police spokeswoman Anja Dierschke when asked about the BZ
One of the officers carries a cage of birds out of the apartment Photo: Spreepicture
According to BZ information, the investigators secured a high-quality violin worth an estimated 300,000 euros.
A spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor’s office confirmed at the request of the BZ that there were two procedures in total. One process dealt explicitly with finding the missing violin.
Heavily armed officers storm one of the objects Photo: Spreepicture
At least one knife, a baton, drugs and a device for manipulating car speedometers were also seized during the searches.