Miri clan

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The Miri-Clan , also called Miri-Family , is the German name for a mhallami - Lebanese clan , which is predominantly based in Bremen ; other focal points of his appearance are Essen and Berlin . The clan is closely interwoven with organized crime and has mafia- like structures. Family members extort protection , drug and illegal drug trafficking , arms trafficking or are active in the red light district . According to police knowledge, only a few clan members are well integrated. In Bremen around 30 families with 2,600 members are assigned to the clan.

Since the name is relatively widespread in the Arab culture , the name does not automatically mean that the bearer belongs to a clan.

origin

In the 1980s, around 15,000 civil war refugees , some of whose citizenship could not be clarified, came from Lebanon. The families settled mainly in the cities of Berlin, Bremen and Essen.

According to a report by stern TV from 2011, the Miri clan has been in Germany since 1980.

In Turkey, the Mhallami had Arabic names that did not include surnames in the European sense. The Turkish names introduced by Ataturk were only used in dealing with Turkish authorities. In Lebanon they used their Arabic names again. Since family names are used in Lebanon, they added a “clan name” to the first name, which was probably mostly chosen after a male ancestor or a special traditional position of the family, place of origin or region. This probably happened between 1925 and 1935. The equality or similarity of a surname does not necessarily mean that the families must be related to one another. Rather, the names were chosen after entering Lebanon, probably based on relatives who were already resident. It also happened that a male member of a family got his own family name due to disputes within the family and thus founded a new clan.

Activities in Germany

In 2004, the Organized Crime Commission of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Germany also dealt with mafia clans in general and criticized the failure of integration efforts in Germany. In the opinion of the investigators, the judiciary has made the problem worse through a misunderstood tolerance and leniency, and the breaking up of criminal structures is only possible, at least in some areas, with the cooperation of all authorities involved in the issue, judicial support and the expansion of tactical criminal investigative measures.

According to official information from the Bremen SPD State Councilor Matthias Stauch from 2008, the public prosecutor's office does not provide any data on a possible number of crimes committed by the "extended M family", if only because family relationships are not recorded or are subject to data protection. In the people around the clan suspected by the police in Bremen of around 1400 people, 440 have so far appeared as suspects. According to police spokesman Niels Matthiesen, on the other hand, around 2,600 clan members lived in Bremen in 2013, of whom "half were recorded in the police computer for serious crimes". Stern also mentions this number in an article from 2011, but stern TV also writes 1100 in the same year.

According to stern TV , the Bremen Senator for the Interior Ulrich Mäurer ( SPD ) announced a “ zero tolerance strategy ”, but nothing has happened since then. The former Bremen Police President and current President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Münch , criticized the reporting on stern TV as "sensational and imprecise". In Bremen, an action plan to stop youth violence, especially for high-risk families, was drawn up, aimed at young intensive offenders , of whom there are a total of 140 in all of Bremen. Because 1,400 people are counted in a family, one should "be careful not to put an entire family under general suspicion," says Stauch.

A lawyer, whose clients also include members of the clan, described the police's actions as "dishonest". He accused those responsible of "running a campaign on the basis of very dubious figures" and urged social policy to be "the best security policy". Spiegel Online quotes a BKA report, according to which asylum seekers are "prevented from integrating through a work ban". The legal situation promotes isolation. They simulate “local village structures”, have a very high proportion of illiterate people and are therefore relatively isolated.

Ibrahim Miri headed the chapter of the motorcycle club Mongols MC , which has been banned in Bremen since 2011 and which mainly accepted members with a migration background. The Mongols repeatedly fought violent clashes with the Hells Angels in Bremen . In 2014 Ibrahim Miri was sentenced to six years in prison for gang drug trafficking. From 1989 to 2014 he was convicted 19 times, including for robbery, serious theft, receiving stolen goods, embezzlement and drug trafficking as a gang. Because an agreement between the federal government and Lebanon on repatriation was concluded at the beginning of 2018, the person who had been obliged to leave the country since 2006 was deported there in July 2019. Die Welt reports that only a Lebanese passport organized by the President of the Federal Police Dieter Romann made the surprising deportation possible. The newspaper also reports that the GSG9 , a special unit of the federal police, and the flight service of the federal police were involved in the deportation and that Miri was flown to Lebanon in a Learjet chartered especially for the deportation .

After an apparently illegal entry (there was a re-entry ban) to Germany, Ibrahim Miri was back in Bremen at the end of October 2019 and, according to his lawyer, applied for asylum. However, the application was rejected in November 2019 as "manifestly unfounded". Ibrahim Miri was initially taken into custody until December 2nd. Because of Ibrahim Miri's illegal return, Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had the border controls tightened. Since November 7th, people who enter Germany despite being banned from entering Germany can be turned away at the German borders. Anyone who nevertheless comes into the country illegally and applies for asylum must remain in custody until an asylum procedure has been decided. On November 18, Ibrahim Miri filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen against the rejection of his asylum application and made an urgent application so that he would not be deported until the decision was made. The Bremen administrative court rejected the urgent application on November 22nd. On November 23, the Interior Ministry announced that Ibrahim Miri had been deported back to Lebanon. Four days later, an entry attempt in Istanbul ended. When he was supposed to fly back to Beirut, he resisted and could only be sent back to Beirut on the second attempt.

"Family Union" association

In February 2011, family member Ahmed Miri and a family member of the Al-Zain family declared a “family union” to Tagesspiegel , which reaches an estimated 70% of all members of both families and which aims to convince young family members in particular that the educational path is more promising than a criminal career. The Familien-Union wanted to open its own leisure facilities in the Berlin districts of Neukölln , Wedding and Spandau . At the same time, in the interview, the Union emphasized its willingness to cooperate with the police. In 2011, members of other large Arab families, such as the Remmo clan, were among the members .

At the end of 2018, the city of Essen discontinued cooperation with the association due to unfulfilled hopes. Also, in the youth sector, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt has broken off its partnership with the Family Union “because the goals are incompatible”. In May 2019, members of the Family Union received a threat from the Essen police after the Berlin migration researcher Ralph Ghadban was threatened by members of various clans after the publication of the book Arab Clans - the underestimated danger . In May 2019, the chairman of the Family Union resigned.

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Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Kerstin Herrnkind , Werner Mathes: The Bremen City Mafia. In: stern.de , February 24, 2014.
  6. ↑ a b c The machinations of the Miris: A clan spreads fear and terror. ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: stern TV , March 30, 2011.
  7. ^ Heinrich Freckmann, Jürgen Kalmbach: Stateless Kurds from Lebanon or Turkish citizens? ( Memento of July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (result of an investigation from March 8 to 18, 2001 in Beirut, Mardin and Ankara). (PDF; 43 kB), Hannover, Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 3–4.
  8. ↑ a b Bremen Citizenship 2008: plenary minutes 17/29 of October 8, 2008, ( PDF ( Memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
  9. ↑ The politician also protects the Miris! In: bild.de . August 14, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2013 .
  10. ↑ a b Mario Assmann: CDU suspects election campaign behind decision against rocker gang. Dispute over immediate "Mongols" ban. In: Weser-Kurier , May 20, 2011, accessed on September 21, 2018.
  11. ↑ New motorcycle club wants to gain a foothold in Bremen - explosive connections to the "Miri-Clan". ( Memento of October 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Radio Bremen , October 14, 2010.
  12. ↑ Rose Gerdts-Schiffler: Mongols MC may come to Bremen: Police fear a new biker club. In: weser-kurier .de , September 17, 2010.
  13. ↑ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Background: The largest criminal clans . In: swp.de . September 22, 2018 ( swp.de [accessed September 28, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Clan chief Miri intercepted when trying to enter Turkey. Welt.de. 29th November 2019.
  15. ↑ Newstime from July 12, 2019
  16. ↑ Chief of the Miri clan apparently deported. Die Welt, July 10, 2019, accessed on July 10, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Deportations suddenly possible: government attacks Lebanese clans. Focus Online, January 19, 2018, accessed July 11, 2019 .
  18. ↑ a b Martin Lutz: Criminal Clans: This is how the federal police arranged for the clan chief to be deported . Ed .: Die Welt . July 13, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed July 18, 2019]).
  19. ^ Roman Lehberger and Jean-Pierre Ziegler: Deported intensive offender: The Ibrahim Miri files. Spiegel.de, July 17, 2019.
  20. ↑ Manuel Bewarder : Ibrahim Miri: How Germany wanted to prevent his return . November 2, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed November 6, 2019]).
  21. ↑ Ibrahim Miri back in Bremen - court orders deportation detention. Spiegel.de, October 29, 2019.
  22. ↑ Bamf rejects asylum application from Bremen clan chief. In: zeit.de. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Ibrahim Miri is not granted asylum. Süddeutsche from November 8, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019.
  24. ↑ Clan chief sued against the rejection of his new asylum application. Tagesspiegel from November 18, 2019.
  25. ↑ Clan member Miri deported to home country. Tagesspiegel from November 23, 2019.
  26. ↑ Clan chief Ibrahim Miri failed attempt to return to Germany. gmx.de of November 29, 2019.
  27. ↑ Claudia Keller: The clan chiefs ask for tea. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 26, 2011.
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  29. ↑ Reiner Burger, Düsseldorf: Arab clans in North Rhine-Westphalia: Family ties against the state . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 10, 2019]).
  30. ↑ Gerd Niewerth: Chairman of the controversial family union resigns. June 6, 2019, accessed on July 10, 2019 (German).
  31. ↑ Author Krafft-Schöning: "There is no patron sitting up there" - Controversial Miri clan in Bremen. ( Memento from June 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Radio Bremen , October 8, 2013.