Kleinmachnow near Berlin. Several police patrol cars drive through a large gate onto a property. Officials in balaclavas get out, secure the area, search the villa. It is a major operation, more than a hundred police officers are approaching.
The raid on Thursday was Arafat Abou-Chaker. The clan chief is a big name in Berlin's underworld, known for his connection to rapper Bushido, bourgeois: Anis Ferchichi. For a long time, the two were considered inseparable, this year it broke. Since then, the fear of a clan war is growing in the capital.
It's about offense, revenge and a lot of money. How serious the conflict is, shows an interview that gave the rapper and his wife Anna-Maria in September the "star". "Of course we are afraid that someone will shoot me or my husband out of revenge," said Anna-Maria Ferchichi at the time. "We actually expect it every day."
Abou-Chaker writes on Instagram: "I'm not like that"
The raid against Abou-Chaker goes back to a testimony from Bushido environment, as the SPIEGEL learned from legal circles. According to the investigation, the investigators were informed that Abou-Chaker was illegally holding a sharp weapon. He is also said to have planned kidnappings. Alleged victims: a member of Bushido's family and the children of Abou-Chaker's brother.
According to The World, Bushido's wife is reported to the police. A spokesman for the Berlin prosecutor's office confirmed that they were investigating, because there was a suspicion of a violation of the weapons law and the appointment of a crime. He did not name details.
On Instagram Abou-Chaker denied the allegations. "I would have wanted to wipe out children, commit murders, and want to have people kidnapped - that's something I can not stand in the world, I'm not like that," it says. His lawyer did not respond to repeated contact attempts of SPIEGEL.
Presumably one must also consider the recent escalation against the background of a smoldering civil procedure. Bushido and Abou-Chaker argue about the business in court. The musician had granted his longtime companion years ago a general power of attorney.
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Arafat Abou-Chaker in front of the Berlin district court
Bushido is said to have always diverted half of its revenue to the clan. After the break, he tried in vain to buy free with 2.5 million euros. It is unclear how the linkages can be solved - and how much money Abou-Chaker can claim.
Bushido and his family have taken the custody of the Rammo clan, who is competing with the Abou-Chakers on the streets of the capital. Already in June there were two seriously injured in one incident.
15 shots at a snack
At that time unknown people fired 15 shots at the snack Papa Ari, which belongs to Arafat Abou-Chaker. According to media reports, he fears that he intends to intimidate him, so he renounces the rights to Bushido music.
Abou-Chaker has long been known to the Berlin judiciary. According to the "Tagesspiegel", about 30 criminal cases have been filed against him so far: it was about acts of violence, property crime, drugs. All procedures had been discontinued, however, useful testimonies were rare.
Currently, Abou-Chaker is charged with the Berlin district court Tiergarten. He had to appear in court the day after the raid. The allegations: assault and threat. Abou-Chaker is said to have attacked the caretaker of a Berlin physio practice on 7 March.
He threatened the 49-year-old with an aggressive tone of death. Later, the clan chief should have stung the man with no reason with two fingers in the eyes. When a witness wanted to settle, Abou-Chaker allegedly struck the janitor. According to a court spokeswoman, the victim suffered a laceration, a nasal bone fracture and hematomas. Abou-Chaker is silent on the allegations.
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