Three years ago, the state of Berlin confiscated 77 properties from the notorious Remmo clan and was celebrated nationwide for this.
Never before had a federal state taken this legally delicate path of fighting crime.
Now it could be that the whole country will soon be looking at Berlin again.
Because now the question arises what the city actually wants to do with its new property.
In no other property is the perplexity as evident as in a listed villa in the Alt-Buckow district in the south of Neukölln. The manorial house was once considered the ancestral home of the family, clan boss Issa Remmo lived here