09-21-2021, 04:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2021, 04:18 AM by Alan_Boskov.)
The edit function of the above post failed, for whatever reason Wrote:...The Berlin police acted on Tuesday night with more than 200 special forces against an Arab family clan. In Germany, thousands of members are classified to belonging to such criminal structures, investigators speak of "mafia-like structures". Why is it so hard to break the power of the clans?
Berlin, Bremen, Lüneburg, Hildesheim, Essen and Duisburg. According to experts, these cities are most affected by criminal clan structures in Germany. "There are now districts in which you only have to name a certain family name, and everyone flinches," says the Islamic scholar Matthias Rohe of the dpa news agency.
Its members are supposedly ( Rolleyes ) controlling drug deals and the red light district. They are said to collect protection money, rob banks and earn their money with other dark businesses.
They are labelled differently as Kurdish-Lebanese clans, Arab extended families or Mhallamiye Kurds. Today, most of the clans who immigrated to Germany in the 1970s and 1980s are among the most dangerous groups in organized crime.
According to statistics from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), Lebanese-dominated groups rank ninth in a comparison of nationalities. In 2014, Lebanese made up 35,000 people in Germany, only 0.04 percent of the total population. Why are these clans so powerful? How are they structured? And why are the police apparently overwhelmed with their battle?...
...Pressure applied on judges, lawyers and witnesses
In addition, cooperation with state bodies is almost completely rejected. It is better to rely on a parallel justice system, which includes so-called justice of the peace...
...Nevertheless, some of the clans deliberately ignore and subvert German laws. Not only through their criminal activities, but also by putting victims and witnesses under pressure and silencing them in ongoing criminal proceedings.
In 2013, for example, a judge at the Bremen District Court had to conduct a trial against defendants from a clan, under police protection, because he and his family were threatened.
In Lower Saxony, too, public prosecutors and judges were already under police protection in the past when trials were opened against alleged criminal Lebanese. Witnesses had to join a witness protection program. Family members, witnesses and lawyers would be intimidated until the trial begins...