Overview
- Security authorities logged about 6,700 clan-linked offences in 2024, a 4.2% decline that officials partly attribute to the partial legalization of cannabis reshaping the statistics.
- The number of suspects rose to 4,282, and a hard core of roughly 190 repeat offenders accounted for about a quarter of the recorded crimes.
- Police carried out around 700 raids and inspected roughly 1,700 venues, securing preliminary assets of about €1.7–1.75 million as mass brawls fell from 19 in 2023 to one in 2024.
- Investigators continue to use a list of 118 relevant family names—four removed and four added—drawing criticism over potential stigmatization that Interior Minister Herbert Reul defends as operationally necessary.
- Officials emphasize a follow-the-money approach but report limited recoveries and frequent legal hurdles to permanent confiscation, which they aim to address through the proposed federal rule change.