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Massive raid in Aurich: Police strike against criminal clans!
Extensive raid in Aurich on December 2nd, 2025: Police fight against clan crime with 200 emergency services and numerous searches.
Massive raid in Aurich: Police strike against criminal clans!
On December 2, 2025, there was an extensive operation against organized clan crime in East Frisia. How Rheiderland Reportedly, around 200 emergency services were involved who belonged to the central office for combating criminal clan structures of the Osnabrück public prosecutor's office. In cooperation with the Aurich/Wittmund police station and other authorities, a total of 16 properties were searched, including both commercial establishments and private apartments, which were the focus of the investigation.
During the operation, numerous pieces of evidence and assets were confiscated, which indicates a targeted offensive against the clan milieu. The investigations are directed against several people who are accused of property and economic crimes as well as tax crimes. A section of Oldersumer Straße in Aurich was even completely closed during the controls to support the measures.
Focus on crime in the clan environment
According to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, a clan is a criminal group linked by family relationships and a common ethnic origin. The police in Lower Saxony comment on this, as shown on NDR It is learned that they regularly investigate clan crime. However, there are also critical voices: investigators like Thomas Müller from the Bremen police criticize the general attribution of family structures to criminal activities and instead suggest using more specific terms such as “organized crime”.
The issue has been intensively studied, particularly since the early 2000s. According to LKA Lower Saxony The first internal situation reports on clan crime were created in 2013, which focused on people of Turkish-Arab origin. These developments not only led to an increase in crimes, but also to violent incidents and increased resistance to the police.
The Lower Saxony police have made combating these criminal structures one of their priorities. The current investigations in East Frisia are part of a comprehensive approach to combat the increasing challenges of clan crime and thus ensure a little more security for citizens.