The Berlin police searched the villa of the notorious Remmo clan in Neukölln and other properties on Thursday morning. Heavily armed and helmeted police officers, investigators from the State Criminal Police Office and a public prosecutor arrived in front of the villa in Alt-Buckow in the morning.
The officials searched the villa, a son of clan boss Issa Remmo was arrested and taken away. An arrest warrant was not executed, but rather the scion of the clan was treated by the identification service. According to Tagesspiegel information, the head of the extended family of Arabic origin was also present during the operation.
According to information from the Tagesspiegel, the investigations into several suspects involved the theft of high-quality electrical appliances, such as refrigerators. Members of individual branches of the extended family of around 1,000 people are repeatedly caught in serious crimes.
Prominent examples include the theft of the “Big Maple Leaf” gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017 and bank burglaries. Several clan men from the extended family are currently on trial in Dresden, they are accused of stealing the Saxon jewels from the Green Vault.
The police had only searched the clan villa last year. The district is in dispute with the Remmos and has terminated the lease with the extended family. She is fighting back in court, a verdict on the district’s eviction action is still pending.
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The public prosecutor had confiscated the villa in 2018, a total of 77 properties worth around nine million euros. The courts approved the procedure because the property was said to have been bought with money stolen from crimes.
Eventually, the property became the property of the State of Berlin, the district got the villa and became the landlord.
In 2021, the district then terminated the lease – because the relationship of trust had been disturbed. The district office accuses the family of having presented a forged lease agreement that also allows the use of the garden.
The family denies the allegations and refers to agreements with an administrator who worked for the property.
