17 points against clan crime
Union-led countries want to expatriate criminals
08/26/2023, 6:45 p.m
The interior minister herself has made far-reaching proposals for fighting criminal clans and announced a political alliance to this end. But their counterparts from the Union-led countries are not satisfied with that. You come up with your own plan.
The interior ministers of the Union-led countries want to advance the fight against clan crime with significant cuts. For example, it should be checked whether criminal clan members with dual nationality could have their German passport withdrawn. In the case of criminal clan members without German citizenship, all “measures aimed at expulsion and deportation should be applied”. This emerges from a 17-point position paper that is available to the DPA, among others.
If families refuse to go to school, a freeze on social benefits should be considered, it says. Children in large criminal families should be closely monitored by the youth welfare office – if necessary to the point of withdrawal of parental care. Criminal youth should be convicted more quickly. The paper was drawn up under the leadership of Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia and coordinated with the Union-led interior ministers, as a spokesman for the Hessian Ministry of the Interior said.
“We live in a very safe country. In parts of Germany, however, the activities of criminal clan members have increasingly become a visible phenomenon in many areas of general crime and organized crime,” said Hesse’s Interior Minister Peter Beuth, spokesman for the Union-led interior ministries in a note accompanying the paper.
Criticism of Faeser
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced an alliance against clan crime last year. “Unfortunately, the federal government still has no strategy and no concrete measures,” criticized Beuth. A new state parliament will be elected in Hesse on October 8th. Faeser is the SPD’s top candidate.
“All over Germany must apply: clan criminals are not allowed to call for riots on our streets, nor cheat, steal or counterfeit unhindered. We must not give these people an inch of space to go about their illegal day-to-day business,” demanded NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul. Among other things, he criticizes the fact that so-called justices of the peace are said to have mediated in the most recent conflicts and mass brawls in the Ruhr area. “Self-appointed justices of the peace are of no importance to our rule of law procedures,” emphasized Reul in the statement on the 17-point paper. According to a “clan crime situation” published last Tuesday, the number of crimes associated with clans in 2022 in the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia rose by a fifth to almost 6,600 compared to the previous year.
Some experts have criticized the recording of clan crime in such situation reports, among other things because sometimes unrelated crimes committed by people with the same surname are counted together. In addition, the definition of criminal clans is limited from the outset to people of certain origins, for example from Lebanon, Turkey or the Western Balkans. With their focus on clan crime, the police generate a certain number of cases, criminologist Thomals Müller recently criticized on ntv.de. “She controls particularly strongly and frequently in this area. This naturally increases the numbers,” explains Müller. “More than in areas that are not so tightly controlled.”