Overview
- Berlin’s state court gave multi-year prison terms to three men for running a phone-based drug delivery service, sentencing a 22-year-old from a large family to five years and nine months, a second 22-year-old to five and a half years, and a 21-year-old to three years, while a 27-year-old was acquitted for lack of proof.
- Prosecutors have charged four men over vehicle fires targeting prison staff cars in Berlin and Großbeeren between March and June 2024, alleging three belong to the same large family and noting two younger suspects are in pretrial detention.
- The arson indictment describes attacks at JVA Heidering and JVA Moabit, including nine cars burned on April 23, 2024 at Heidering, and states a 27-year-old suspect already serves a five-and-a-half-year drug sentence.
- In a separate case, the Berlin court opened proceedings over a November 2020 mass attack outside a Neukölln convenience shop linked to the Remmo business sphere, issuing arrest warrants after three of six accused failed to appear and pausing two cases under youth law with monetary conditions.
- Investigations included a December 2024 raid with more than 140 officers searching homes and prison cells, and reporting notes that the commonly used “clan criminality” label is contested as stigmatizing by critics.