Drug raids in Berlin after hacking EncroChat phones
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In a major anti-drug campaign in Berlin, heavily armed agents raided more than 20 homes and commercial premises. According to Der Spiegel the operation was aimed at the notorious Remmo family, who play a major role in the drug trade in the German capital. The police action had been prepared for months.

In addition to drug trafficking and prostitution, members of the Arab-German Remmo clan are also ‘specialized’ in spectacular robberies. For example, they are held responsible for a spectacular museum burglary in 2019. At the time, priceless jewelery was stolen from the Grünes Gewölbe museum in Dresden.

“Clans are really a headache file. They totally disregard the law and are involved in a constant game of cat and mouse with the police”, correspondent Judith van de Hulsbeek said about the Remmo family.

EncroChat
According to Der Spiegel In the major drug investigation, the police and the judiciary used cracked data from the EncroChat messaging service.

Last summer, the Dutch and British police announced that employees had read for weeks with encrypted messages from criminals who thought they had been unobserved for years on EncroChat. The messages already play a leading role in dozens of criminal cases in the Netherlands and police forces worldwide are now using the exchanged data in investigations.

The most famous find thanks to EncroChat in the Netherlands was the underworld prison in Wouwse Plantage, in North Brabant.