Maybrit Illner wanted to know this time if "criminal clans are out of control". It was about robbery, extortion and murder. The keyword "no-go areas" was mentioned. The name Bushido fell. And Illner's thesis was that "Arab family clans" were "entertaining only on television" - an allusion to the Berlin-based television series "4 Blocks". She talked to her guests about what to do to control clan crime.
The optical desperate act of the evening: It was right at the beginning. Shishas, with guns attached to their upper ends, which shoot at a map of Germany - that was the picture with which the theme was outlined in a feature film. Instead of the popular slide show optics this time so the aesthetics of a bad shooting game.
The occasion of the evening: Why this topic? One probably felt the need for explanation. Sebastian Fiedler, the chairman of the Association of German Criminal Investigators, said that "the problem awareness" had become stronger. One has a "very reactive criminal policy". Clan crime was clearly described 15 years ago, but politically there was no backing for policing. Now the topic is being discussed more intensively, so it is also politically on the agenda.
The instruments of the evening: Dirk Behrendt, green Senator for Justice in Berlin, did not want to let the impression of inactivity stand: "We use the legal possibilities in Berlin," he said, in particular for asset extraction. Plots would be confiscated, even cars. "We want to show that crime is not worth it." Herbert Reul, CDU Minister of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia, presented himself as a proponent of dropouts and "permanent needle sticks" by the police.
The fight against clan crime also includes a "dropout" strategy for family members, emphasizes NRW Minister of the Interior @hreul (CDU): We need an idea, how can you get it out?
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The family aspect of the evening: Migration researcher Ralph Ghadban focused on him. Clans are hardly manageable, because even the members, who would not punish anything, would be silent.
The appeal of the evening: more funds for the police - that was Sebastian Fiedler's message. You need units that did not care about clans for years. "We will not be able to achieve short-term success here, it will not happen."
BDK_Bund boss Sebastian Fiedler warns against the expectation of quick successes in the fight against criminal Arab-descended family clans
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The defender of the evening: Attorney László Anisic, whose clients also include members of large Arab families, introduced a new twist. He formulated the rule of law as a matter of course - and showed that until then the discussion had been quite a posterity: "That all bear the same surname does not make all criminals," he said. The concept of the clan is legally not - in contrast to the gang: A gang consists of at least three people who had agreed to commit crimes. If the gang charge is in the room, it is easier to listen to telephones. He noted that "there is constant talk of gangs", which does not always withstand in court. "When the skat play, it's not a gang."
The ethnomusicological excursus of the evening: Ralph Ghadban said that in order to maintain "clan solidarity", endogamy in Berlin was "much larger than in Lebanon". To German: "They marry one another." Weak point and strength of the clans are at the same time "the women". For years he has demanded a drop-out program for them in order to permanently weaken the solidarity within the extended families.
The comparison of the evening: What distinguishes the mafia of Arab clans? Italian politician and anti-mafia activist Laura Garavini said the mafia was "much more inconspicuous" because she knew that spectacular acts of violence produced repression, "against the interests of organized crime". The mafia is also very well connected worldwide.
The political transfer of the evening: A root for the emergence of criminal structures discovered the round in that the people who had fled to Germany at that time about from the Lebanese civil war, had not received a work permit. A "completely neglected integration policy" Sebastian Fiedler made. CDU politician Reul supported this. One had to take care that "the newcomers", who had now come to Germany, would be integrated. The refugees of today as potential clan criminals of tomorrow - that was the subtext.
@ LauraGaravini: Organized crime is not always foreign. There is also German organized crime. # clank crime #bka #razzia #Clan #illner
- maybrit illner (@maybritillner) 24th January 2019The not unimportant sentence of the evening: He came from Laura Garavini. Speaking almost exclusively about Arab, Italian and Kurdish clans, she said, "The discussion is going in the wrong direction in spreading the concept of organized crime being foreign."