“A total of 14,225 offences committed by crime gangs in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) were logged between 2016 and 2018, according to new figures revealed on Wednesday.
It’s the first time the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) and interior ministry have unveiled the scale of the problem of criminal clans in NRW.
The LKA said 104 gangs are active in the western German state, and that every third member is a German national, reported local paper the Rheinische Post.
The investigators believe, however, that this could be the tip of the iceberg because there is a high number of unreported cases.
It is also worth noting that 36 percent of the suspects are German citizens.
“This is the generation that was born here,” said Jungbluth. “They are much more aggressive, they show off on the streets.”
Around 31 percent of those suspected of being in gangs are Lebanese, and that’s followed by Turks (15 percent) and Syrians (13 percent). The remaining five percent of the suspects are either stateless or there is no information about where they’re from.”
https://www.thelocal.de/20190516/crime-committed-by-clans-plagues-west-german-state-police
“Nach Darstellung des 30 Seiten umfassenden Berichts haben Clanmitglieder in den vergangenen drei Jahren rund 14.225 Straftaten in NRW begangen. 6449 tatverdächtige Personen wurden identifiziert. Die Ermittler vermuten jedoch, dass die tatsächliche Zahlen noch deutlich höher liegen und es eine hohe Dunkelziffer gibt. Dabei gehen allein 20 Prozent der Straftaten auf das Konto von nur zwei Clans; und sechs Prozent sogenannter Intensivtäter sind für rund ein Drittel aller Straftaten verantwortlich. Zudem gab es zwischen 2016 und 2018 insgesamt 26 Tötungsdelikte, wobei zwei der Opfer tatsächlich ums Leben kamen. 20 Prozent der Tatverdächtigen sind Frauen.”
