GERMAN FIGHT AGAINST LARGE CRIMINAL FAMILIES
Fight against criminal large families
The federal and state governments want to intensify the fight against large criminal families. Why police investigations are very difficult against them, explained Islamist Ralph Ghadban.

Solidarity within the family makes these clans particularly dangerous because even non-criminal members would cover others' crimes, Ralph Ghadban said in the SWR: "This close involvement enables them to commit particularly many crimes and thus accumulate wealth . The cohesion within the family is therefore even stronger in Germany than in Lebanon.

Completely different structures than the mafia
This clan crime would have completely different structures than, say, the Italian or Russian mafia, because here the family as a whole is involved. "Organized crime is where different people from Russia, Romania or Bulgaria get together to commit crimes," said Ghadban.

Clans mainly in Berlin active - partly in Stuttgart
The Arabian clans are to be found mainly in Berlin and in the northern federal states, ie Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bremen. In the south, some communities had formed in Stuttgart. But only recently.