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Listed villa in the Alt-Buckow district (archive photo): Large-scale police operation
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The police searched a large house belonging to the Remmo clan in Berlin, which was confiscated by the state in 2018.
A police spokeswoman said the operation was about a threat from a possibly sharp firearm within the extended family in March.
According to the information, 75 police officers were in action on the property in the Neukölln district.
After the search, one half of the extended family's double property is also to be separated with a fence with the help of the police.
The police support the Neukölln district in this project, said the spokeswoman.
In 2018, 77 properties belonging to the large Arab family were provisionally seized - including the listed villa in which a leading member of the clan lived, as well as the two associated properties.
According to court rulings, these were not bought with legal money and have finally belonged to the city of Berlin since autumn 2020.
According to the »Tagesspiegel«, the villa will continue to be used by family members, as there was a rental agreement within the family that fell to the district after the confiscation, but continues to apply.
The second property should not be included, so that the district wants to separate it and take it away from the family.
"The district office only secures its property here, which is illegally used by the neighboring tenants, but does not belong to the rented property," Neukölln's mayor Martin Hikel (SPD) told the "Tagesspiegel".
"Any other landlord would do the same."
Members of the Remmo clan, or Rammo in other spelling, are held responsible for considerable criminal offenses: for example for the theft of gold coins from the Berlin Bode Museum in 2017 and the theft of jewels from the historical Green Vault in Dresden in 2019.
wit / dpa