By Gunnar Schupelius
Organized crime is growing and growing, the police are constantly on duty and the judiciary is overwhelmed. That’s no longer normal and it can’t go on like this, says Gunnar Schupelius.
We’ve long since gotten used to it: a raid here and a raid there, no one looks closely anymore, most of the media only see it as a report.
Just like last Thursday, when a heavily armed squad stormed the Remmo villa in Alt-Buckow. A 31-year-old son of the family resisted the search and was taken away. At the entrance he grinned into the BZ photographer’s camera.
It was a grin that spoke everything: the provocative self-confidence of professional criminals, their indifference that knows no guilt, their contempt for justice and law.
The Remmo clan, with its at least 1000 members, is accused of, among many other crimes, the theft of the gold coin from the Bode Museum and the burglary of the Green Vault in Dresden.
The police assume there are up to 20 criminal clans in Berlin. Their names are well known: Al-Zein, Chahrour, Miri, Abou-Chaker, etc. Their business is human trafficking, drug trafficking, racketeering, theft and fraud.
Until recently, they were still trivializingly called “extended families”, now one only speaks of clans, which is also not true.
Because it is nothing more than a dangerous mafia that sees itself outside the law and whose goal is to undermine the state order.
The authorities keep a very precise record of this. The Senate’s current “Clan crime situation report” of May 6 states: “In 2021, a total of 178 police control operations were carried out (…). 572 properties were checked and 47 properties closed. A total of 849 crimes by 295 suspects attributed to clan crime were registered.”
The number of raids and investigations has been increasing steadily since April 2020. At that time, the French police managed to crack the “Encrochat” messenger service, which was used by more than 90 percent of criminals and in which organized crime felt safe thanks to end-to-end encryption.
Since then, 1.6 million messages from almost 750 users have been evaluated from the Encrochat database. A particularly large number of these messages were sent by clan members from Berlin.
A powerful criminal parallel society has emerged, which forms a state within a state and whose members despise this country. For four decades these clans have grown and continue to grow. The police, heavily armed, remain in constant use, the judiciary is overwhelmed, politicians take note.
A raid every other day? You accepted it as if it were all normal. But it’s not normal.
It was different once, and it has to be different again. There was a Berlin without this mafia and that was a better time.
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