Remmo clan

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The Remmo-Clan (also Rammo-Clan ) is an Arab extended family with over 500 members, some of which are attributed to the clan crime . Authorities associate the criminal part of the family with crimes such as serious violent or physical harm , extortion , robbery , drug dealing, receiving stolen goods , theft , illegal possession of weapons and murder . Because of the spread of the name in the Arab culture , it cannot automatically be concluded that the name bearers belong to a clan.

origin

The extended Remmo family, which belongs to the Mhallami ethnic group , originally comes from the Mardin province in the southeast of today's Turkey ( southeastern Anatolia ; then the Ottoman Empire ), near the border with Syria . From there, the Remmos emigrated - many of them were expelled after the end of the First World War - initially to Lebanon , where they were only tolerated as stateless persons and lived on the lowest fringes of society. During the Lebanese civil war, parts of the family finally migrated to Germany in the 1980s .

High profile crimes

Murder in 1992

Two family members shot a restaurateur from the former Yugoslavia in Schöneberg in 1992 . They seriously injured another man. Officials searched the home and found heroin and blank Lebanese birth certificates.

Fatal traffic accident with hit and run in 2008

In October 2008, a time their as offenders aged 19 Clan member ran over on Potsdamer Platz in violation of several traffic rules a passer-by, wounding him fatally, committing a hit and run . Two months later, in December 2008, he broke into a drugstore with his brother. During the subsequent escape from the police, the duo hit a tree with a car that was not registered on them and died in the process.

Sparkasse in Mariendorf

In October 2014, a family member and several accomplices broke into a savings bank in Berlin-Mariendorf . In order to remove any evidence, the burglars set the branch on fire . This caused an explosion , in which the clan member was injured and his DNA traces could be saved at the crime scene. Meanwhile sought internationally by arrest warrant, he was arrested in Rome in January 2015 and transferred to Germany. That same year he was sentenced to eight years in prison. He has been in open prison since December 2017 . Both the accomplices involved in the break-in and the stolen valuables worth 9.16 million euros could not be identified (as of October 2015).

Money laundering

According to an investigation by the Berlin State Criminal Police Office , the clan has a network of straw men in Beirut , Tripoli and Berlin to professionally invest its criminal income in clean business .

Burglary in the Bode Museum

In October 2018, the youth chamber of the Berlin district court brought charges against three clan members for breaking into the Bode Museum . They are charged with stealing a 100 kilogram gold coin (“ Big Maple Leaf ”) worth 3.75 million euros on March 27, 2017 . In the course of the investigation, the suspects' telephones were tapped and a search order was carried out. a. live firearms were seized. The fourth perpetrator was an informant who had been used as a security guard for the security company operating there. The two Remmo brothers Wayci and Ahmed and their cousin Wissam are charged with various offenses, including theft, trespassing and fraud. During the ongoing trial in November 2019, the 22-year-old Wissam Remmo was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment by the Erlangen District Court for stealing hydraulic scissors, such as those used by criminals for breaking into cash transporters or ATMs , condemned.

On February 20, 2020, Wissam and Ahmed Remmo were found guilty of theft of coins by the Berlin Regional Court and each sentenced to four and a half years in prison. The former security guard Denis W., who went to school with Ahmed Remmo and is friends with him, received a prison sentence of three years and four months. All penalties are not yet final. Traces of gold and gold shavings in apartments, vehicles and on the clothes of the perpetrators were important evidence . The court also ordered a total of 3.4 million euros to be confiscated from the convicts. Wayci Remmos was not involved in the crime; the court assumes at least two other perpetrators.

Raids and asset seizures 2018

On July 13, 2018, 40 police officers searched 77 properties in 13 locations in Berlin and Brandenburg. Were seized provisionally mortgage bonds and land worth over 9.3 million euros, including a 6 km² garden allotment, including the members of the Remmo family.

On August 27, 2018, another raid took place on the urgent suspicion of organized drug trafficking in cooperation with the Al-Zein family . In addition to the search of five properties, arrest warrants were carried out against two brothers from the clan. A Mercedes AMG , a Porsche Panamera and a KIA SUV were confiscated . Two kilograms of cannabis and ammunition were also seized.

Business relationships with rappers

The clan has business relationships with rappers. Family member Ashraf Remmo was the manager of the rap artist Massiv for a long time . In August 2018 he was also considered a business partner of Bushido , who left the Abou Chaker clan , who had previously supported him, in a dispute. A firearms attack on the snack bar of the head of the Abou Chaker clan has been linked by observers to the dispute. Furthermore, the Remmo-Clan works as security management for the rapper Capital Bra .

reception

Reports

  • The real estate business of Arab clans. Documentary, Germany, 2018, 27:34 min., Script and direction: Thomas Heise and Claas Meyer-Heuer, production: Spiegel TV , Internet publication: September 24, 2018, table of contents and online video by Spiegel TV.
  • "My family and my eggs are the same" - interior views of an extended Arab family. The Rammo family is one of the most powerful large Arab families in Berlin. In: Spiegel TV Magazin , Germany 2018, two episodes, first broadcasts on September 17 and 24, 2018 on RTL , script and direction: Thomas Heise and Claas Meyer-Heuer, moderation: Maria Gresz , production: Spiegel TV.
  • Arab clans in Berlin. Documentary, Germany, 2016, 53:20 min., Script and direction: Thomas Heise and Claas Meyer-Heuer, production: Spiegel TV, series: Magazin , Internet publication : December 11, 2016, table of contents and online video by Spiegel TV.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Laura Backes, Jürgen Dahlkamp , Jörg Diehl, Lukas Eberle, Thomas Heise, Claas Meyer-Heuer, Andreas Ulrich: This is how the clans rule in Germany . In: Der Spiegel , issue 8/2019, February 15, 2019, accessed on May 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ Report: On the trail of the family clans. In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Wolschner: "I want to live in peace." In: Die Tageszeitung , Bremen, July 26, 2018, interview with Houssam Remmo u. a. about his exit from the SPD.
  4. ↑ Julia Huber: Bushido and the Berlin clans. In: Süddeutsche.de , September 27, 2018.
  5. ↑ Michael Verfürden: How the police discovered a criminal clan. In: Handelsblatt , July 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Katja Demirci, Sebastian Leber , Hannes Heine, Werner van Bebber: The state is reaching for the money of Berlin's most criminal clan. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 20, 2018.
  7. ^ Extended family R. - the Berlin blood ties. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Oliver Hollenstein, Yassin Musharbash , Holger Stark , Tobias Timm , Fritz Zimmermann: Familienbande . In: Die Zeit , No. 28/2018, July 5, 2018, edited by Zeit Online on October 5, 2018, accessed on May 14, 2019.
  9. ↑ a b Hannes Heine, Sebastian Leber: Large family R. - the Berlin blood ties. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ Tanja Buntrock: Reconstruction of a journey of death. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 4, 2008.
  11. ↑ Tanja Buntrock: Suspected death driver from Potsdamer Platz raced himself to his death. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 24, 2008.
  12. ^ A b c Axel Spilcker: Drug taxis, burglaries, murder: How an Arab clan keeps the Berlin judiciary in suspense. In: Focus Online , September 27, 2018.
  13. ↑ Kerstin Gehrke: Defendant refuses to testify about bank robbery. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 13, 2015.
  14. ↑ Gold coin robbery: three Remmo offspring accused. In: BZ , October 17, 2018.
  15. ↑ Thomas Heise, Claas Meyer-Heuer, Jens Witte: Trial of gold coin theft: The brazen coup in the Bode Museum . In: Spiegel Online . January 9, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 9, 2019]).
  16. ↑ Clan member sentenced to imprisonment for theft. In: Spiegel Online , November 27, 2019.
  17. ↑ a b c d Wiebke Ramm, DER SPIEGEL: Berlin - judgment in the gold coin process: "Coup of life" - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Maren Wittge, Jörg Bergmann, Matthias Becker, Anne Losensky and Julien Wilkens: buy real estate with money from crime? That's what the Berlin clan boss says about the allegations. In: BZ , July 20, 2018.
  19. ^ Dpa : Raid in Berlin: 77 properties of a clan confiscated. In: Zeit online , July 19, 2018.
  20. ^ Claas Meyer-Heuer: Organized crime: police confiscate dozens of properties from extended families. In: Spiegel Online , July 18, 2018.
  21. ^ Peter Carstens (Berlin): Raid in Berlin: Coin robbery, bank robbery, money laundering. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 19, 2018.
  22. ↑ Andreas Kopietz: Cocaine raid: Here the police shows their fine nose. In: Berliner Kurier , August 27, 2018.
  23. ↑ Matthias Lukaschewitsch, Peter Rossberg, Timo Beurich and Jörg Bergmann: Next blow against clans. That is behind the raid against large Arab families. In: BZ , August 27, 2018.
  24. ↑ saw: argument on Instagram. Dispute between clan bosses escalates. In: Focus , August 5, 2018.
  25. ^ Matthias Becker & Peter Rossberg: Raid after shots on the Abou Chaker snack bar. In: BZ , August 3, 2018.
  26. ↑ Capital Bra: Without HIM I would be DEAD! Retrieved on May 11, 2020 (German).