From Hildburg Bruns
They cannot be grasped: The investigators from the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) currently have 25 open arrest warrants against Berlin clan members. 16 other clan criminals are currently behind bars – among other things because of drugs, theft with weapons, dangerous bodily harm.
In the first half of the year, the police have already seized assets of almost 2.19 million euros – spread over five investigations in the clan area. Compared to the year before (2 procedures, 87,905 euros), this is a significant increase. This emerges from an AfD request to the Interior Senate.
The new Justice Senator Felor Badenberg (48, independent) has announced that up to 20 additional prosecutors will be used to confiscate assets. At the beginning of the investigation, possessions such as apartments, cars and jewelery are to be confiscated and frozen so that valuables can no longer be stowed away and the state of Berlin can escape.
The current clan balance sheet:
► Procedure: In the previous year there were 872 investigations in connection with clan crime in Berlin. Increasing trend (2021: 849)
► Armament: Of the 501 suspects in organized crime (OC) in total, 35 were armed last year – 7 percent (2021: 9.9 percent).
► asset recovery: In the entire OC area, 2.249 million euros were confiscated in 14 complexes in 2022 (2021: 18 procedures with 5.6 million euros).
► detention: 16 clan members are currently being held in Berlin prisons. The crimes: drug offenses (6), fraud (3), assault (3), driving without a license (1), theft with weapons (1). The nationalities: German (4), German-Lebanese (2), Lebanese (2), German-Turkish (1), unclear (5), stateless (2).
“The fact that clan crime in the area of organized crime is so particularly dangerous today was made possible because misunderstood multicultural tolerance closed our eyes to the problem for years and decades. It’s time to finally name the causes and eliminate them with all consequences,” comments MP Karsten Woldeit (48, AfD), who asked the Senate for the figures.