Several homes were searched during a raid in Essen, Mülheim and Oberhausen on Tuesday. An entire arsenal of weapons was seized. The background to this is an investigation into suspected illegal arms trafficking against two Turks from Essen. According to the police, both are associated with the criminal clan milieu. There have been leads about the two for two years. More than a dozen pistols, four long guns, several hundred rounds of ammunition and ‘various means of communication’ were confiscated during the search, which was carried out by special police units. These included several loaded firearms and several bullets.
The weapons seized are still being investigated. ‘As the flat was heavily cluttered, large parts of the inventory had to be carried out and searched.’ More than 20 members of the police team formed a chain in the hallway to pack the items into a lorry, the police said. The two men are now being investigated on suspicion of trafficking in firearms.
This case is probably just the tip of the iceberg, especially in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the hopelessly overstretched CDU Interior Minister Herbert Reul has to report a new record increase in clan crime every year and simulate political ability to act. Members of criminal clans are hoarding and selling weapons on a scale that is almost unimaginable. Some of them are probably better equipped than many police or even federal defence units.
In any case, they are excellently equipped for the fight to introduce the caliphate or the constant expansion of their criminal activities and are more ‘war-ready’ than the German population, which is now to be mobilised against an imaginary external enemy, while the same politicians who are calling for this are constantly ensuring that the real enemies are imported.