Overview
- As of May 27 prosecutors were handling 126 related cases and 29 suspects were in pre-trial detention, officials said.
- The prosecutor's investigative group Telum, formed in late February, is working closely with the LKA special unit Ferrum, created in November 2025, to target organized criminal networks.
- A major mid-May operation involving about 570 officers led to nine arrests and seizures of drugs, cash, a firearm, firearm parts, two cars and electronic devices.
- One trial has already begun in the Landgericht Berlin where four men aged 21–26 face charges including dangerous bodily harm and attempted aggravated extortion for using shootings as intimidation.
- Justice Senator Felor Badenberg says authorities will keep coordinating arrests, seizures and prosecutions to permanently dismantle the protection-racket model that has targeted mainly Turkish-Kurdish businesses.