baseball bats, police dogs and express trips to the hospital guarded by officials: Because of a violent brawl between two large families in Berlin, a hundred people had even moved out on Wednesday night. The fire brigade was also on site with 50 emergency services in the High Deck settlement in Neukölln, but was initially unable to help for safety reasons. The BZ first reported that the police were investigating serious breaches of the peace and dangerous bodily harm.
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At first, men from the extended G. family had argued violently with opponents, a connoisseur reported to the Tagesspiegel. Finally, both camps attacked each other on the street. When police officers called by residents arrived around 10:30 p.m., they were attacked by a growing crowd. Officers radioed for reinforcements. A large contingent of police officers from several stations and a squad of hundreds with dogs moved in.
“The men only calmed down when the dogs came,” reports a person familiar with the events of the Tagesspiegel. “They were so determined to fight their battles undisturbed on the street that they didn’t let the first emergency vehicles with blue lights disturb them.”
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Officers also used pepper spray. At least 15 men are said to have been involved in the brawl, other relatives stood by and cheered on the beating participants. Eight suspects were arrested and baseball bats confiscated.
Next to one broken hand asked the investigators numerous hematomas and bruises firmly. A woman was after a Kick in the head provided. At least two people involved were taken to the Neukölln hospital that night, which is why police officers secured the clinic.
Police said Wednesday that during the incident, “two brothers, ages 23 and 26, kicked two other brothers, ages 24 and 17, who in turn fought back with punches and kicks.” In addition, a 25-year-old hit with a baseball bat against the head of a 25-year-old boy who was kneeling on the ground, who fell forward and hit his head on the asphalt. Although the police were already there, “a 43-year-old man ran towards the injured 25-year-old man who was sitting on the ground and kicked him in the face”.
Police officers regularly move into Berlin rescue centers, because patients or visitors from the clan milieu are threatening nursing staff and doctors there – or there are fears that there will be attacks on the big names in the scene who are cared for there.
Some of the men on the spot are identified by investigators in the area relevant clan sizes attributed. It is said in Neukölln about the extensive G. family, whose members considered themselves Mhallami, an ethnic group from southern Turkey with an Arabic dialect.
Most of the men found on the scene that night are born in Berlin. The Tagesspiegel could not reach any of those involved.
The High Deck settlement is because of the New Year’s Eve riots hit the headlines across Germany devices. At that time there were riots in which officials were attacked and a bus burned down.
At a Knife fight in the nearby Sonnenallee three people were also injured on Wednesday night. It is unclear whether there is a connection to the mass brawl in the High Deck settlement.
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Im Middle-Clan testimonies from suspects and witnesses are rare. In the current situation report of the Berlin police it says: Of considerable importance in the context of “criminal structures of Arabic origin” are the “influencing of witnesses and victims by Intimidation, threats or financial settlements“.
Police-wise, clan crime is that Committing crimes by members of closed subcultures of common origin, with the perpetrators often being related. According to the police situation report, the clans also provoked violent escalations on “insignificant occasions”, the patriarchal-hierarchical extended families were characterized by “a lack of willingness to integrate”.
2023-09-06 15:45:56
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