The North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) complains that the state has long not decisively fought criminal members of clans: "Politicians have not paid enough attention to the phenomenon in recent decades." We've screwed it up, and maybe it was also not opportune? "

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In a SPIEGEL interview he talks about the raids that were last carried out in NRW and announces further measures: "We started, we will not stop."

Reul describes it as "a mammoth task to stop the clans"; he "does not believe that this can be done in the five years of my term of office". Reul rejects criticism of the media-effective raids: "The public impact is part of the tactics of action and not an invention of the PR department of the Minister."

Two years ago, the North Rhine-Westphalian State Office for Criminal Investigation launched the project "Keeas", an abbreviation for "crime and mission hotspots characterized by ethnically isolated subcultures". Since October 2018 the final report is available. In it, as the SPIEGEL continues to report, read: "The findings currently document an expansion of ... of 'clan crime' outgoing threats to the security situation in North Rhine-Westphalia." With usual police measures one does not get further.

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