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Police officers in Kreuzberg (November 28): various baseball bats confiscated
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Three days after a 29-year-old man was shot in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the violent clashes between members of large families of Arab origin appear to have continued.
This led to a major police operation on Monday evening.
Photos and videos from the night show blocked roads, blue lights and numerous hooded police officers, some with helmets and submachine guns.
This time, however, there were no injuries, as a police spokeswoman said.
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About ten men are said to have appeared in front of a house in Gneisenaustraße on Monday evening around 9:50 p.m. and smashed the windows of a ground floor apartment.
According to the police, witnesses also reported a car that was deliberately damaged.
The perpetrators are said to have fled towards Südstern by car.
Alerted police officers checked four suspicious men aged 22, 23, 24 and 49 as well as numerous motorists on Mittenwalder Strasse.
They confiscated various baseball bats and a car and interviewed witnesses.
A video also shows how police officers secure a house entrance with submachine guns.
At around 10.30 p.m., the 71-year-old grandfather of the 29-year-old who was shot on Friday alerted the police because he was said to have been threatened on the phone and through his closed door.
The criminal police are investigating property damage and threats.
The officials say they are investigating a possible connection with the crime on Friday evening and the suspected involvement of criminal members of Arab clans.
Several men shot the 29-year-old in front of a shop in Kreuzberg.
The man was operated on and transferred to the intensive care unit.
The police have since checked whether a dispute between clan members was the background to the crime.
The perpetrators have not yet been caught.
Clan and organized crime has long been an issue in Berlin and other federal states.
In the past few weeks, violent clashes between members of an Arab clan and criminal Chechens have made headlines.
In addition, one year after the jewel theft in the Dresden treasury, the Grünes Gewölbe clan members were arrested as alleged perpetrators.
The police union (GdP) announced that there is currently an intensified struggle for influence in the milieu, as is so often the case with baseball bats and firearms on the street: »Berlin is the epicenter of criminal groups made up of large Arab families who support the rule of law and reject all the rules that apply in our country. "
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