In several federal states there has been a large-scale campaign against smuggling. Two arrest warrants were enforced, said the prosecutor Trier. There were officers of the Federal Police and the police Trier in action.
The focus of action was, according to the investigators in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. The investigation is therefore directed inter alia against members of a Lebanese family clan. The investigators accuse the suspect of commercial and gang infiltration of foreigners and other crimes.
During the raid on Thursday, 28 objects were searched. 16 of them are in Rhineland-Palatinate, ten in North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition, one object was searched in Berlin and Saarland. A total of 364 officers of the Federal Police and 27 officials of the Trier police were on duty. Further details are not known yet.
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