Ethnic Crime Families Provoke German Crackdown:
Criminal clans of Arab and Kurdish origin clash violently in Berlin and broaden their sway in #Germany. My report via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Criminal clans of Arab and Kurdish origin clash violently in Berlin and broaden their sway in #Germany. My report via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
On a rainy morning in a cemetery last month, Berlin’s hidden underworld briefly emerged from the shadows. It was the funeral of a gang enforcer who got shot eight times as he took his wife and children for a stroll in a popular park. @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
His funeral drew nearly 2,000 mourners from across the country. Scores of police officers watched as bearded, beefy men in tracksuits and crew cuts filed by. Older men were ferried to the graveside in luxury cars with dark-tinted windows. @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Security officials, politicians and researchers say Germany's burgeoning ethnic crime clans represent an immediate security concern as well as a warning about what can happen when migrants fail to integrate into their host societies. @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Some of the families stuck by tribal and Islamic codes of justice, spurning the state & its laws, a government study found. Insulated from society, governed by their own rules and hierarchies, several such families turned into criminal enterprises @wsj wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Outside Berlin, criminal families with Arab and Kurdish roots have established branches in the Rhineland, Lower Saxony and the northern city of Bremen. @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Officially, most prominent clan members live off welfare, authorities say, but their empires span illegal activities from prostitution to fueling the city’s booming party industry with drugs. More recently, the families have branched into legal ventures wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Since the 2015 immigration crisis, Berlin's criminal clans have been recruiting young refugees to act mainly as street-level drug dealers. Via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Sami, who said he had shared a prison cell with Mr. Rabih, said new gangs were disturbing Berlin’s criminal equilibrium. “Now it’s like New York here: Chechens, Kurds, Albanians, Russians, Moroccans, Turks, Gypsies,” he said. “Everyone wants their share.” wsj.com/articles/ethni…
“The clans see our liberal democratic society as something to be plundered. Yet even discussing crime and ethnicity was off-limits until recently,” said Ralph Ghadban, who blames political correctness for authorities' failure to dismantle the ethnic gangs wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Mr. Hikel, Neukölln’s mayor,said authorities had allowed the clans to establish a parallel society that rejects German norms and values,initiate children into crime from an early age and encourage intermarriage to strengthen cohesion and accumulate wealth. wsj.com/articles/ethni…
Berlin’s party industry, one of the capital’s main tourist magnets, is fuelled by recreational use of drugs. Meet the clans who control the entire illegal drugs trade. Via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
'Only pigs, not men, would massacre a father in front of his children,' said one mourner. “They will pay.” wsj.com/articles/ethni…
The Berlin clans have even made into popular culture. A fictional Arab crime family is the star of the TV series “4 Blocks,” streaming through Amazon around the world. Critics have compared the show to “The Sopranos.” wsj.com/articles/ethni…
An Ice-Cream Truck Slaying, Party Drugs and Real-Estate Kings: Ethnic Clans Clash in Berlin’s Underworld. Via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
A crackdown on gang violence in #Germany has drawn attention to the country's burgeoning ethnic crime clans. Via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ethni…
