In Germany, the police organized the Day of Combating Crime Clans | News from Germany about Germany

The police of the German federal state of North Rhine – Westphalia (NRW) on Saturday, March 12, and the night of Sunday, March 13, held the so-called Day of Combating Clan Crime. At the same time, 18 people were arrested during the day and another 27 people were preliminary detained.

According to the police report, searches took place at 159 properties across the federal state, including car salvage yards, hairdressers, restaurants, hookah lounges, betting shops and gambling halls. The raids were attended by 1,500 police officers and 300 employees of other departments, including customs, tax inspection and public order.

At the same time, 800 protocols on offenses were drawn up and more than 850 fines were issued.

Seized money, slot machines, knives and tobacco

Nearly 2,300 vehicles across the federal state were stopped during road checks aimed at combating speeding and posturing, nine of which were eventually confiscated. In addition, the police seized more than 100,000 euros in cash, 35 illegal slot machines, four knives and about 60 kilograms of untaxed tobacco.

“I am sure that this 24-hour marathon among the criminal families has a symbolic power that goes far beyond today. By doing this, we make it clear that we will continue in the same spirit,” said the Minister of the Interior of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Herbert Reul (Herbert Reul ), commenting on the results of the raids.

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German Pickpockets
1. Receiving tolkaniya
The offender allegedly accidentally pushes the victim – hits a passerby, and at this time quickly takes out his wallet from his pocket or bag. If the criminals work together, one of them, moving in front, suddenly stops, and his accomplice pushes the victim from behind, committing theft. This technique is also used on escalators and in public transport when entering or exiting.

German Pickpockets
2. Embossing technique
In overcrowded buses or wagons, a thief (supposedly forced) so unpleasantly and for a long time presses on one of the passengers, pushing him, while he, in order to avoid having to face this unnerving neighbor, turns away from him, substituting for theft – a bag on his shoulder, a backpack on back or back pocket.

German Pickpockets
3. Reception with a city plan
Some alleged visitor (criminal) with a map of the city in his hands turns to a passerby with a request for help. While the victim is distracted, looking at a map or giving directions, the accomplice discreetly puts his hand in his pocket or bag. At train stations, this criminal scenario is also played out near stands or information boards with a plan of city streets.

German Pickpockets
4. Reception with the exchange of money
The offender asks a passer-by or a random oncoming person to exchange a large coin for small ones. When he takes out the wallet, the thief distracts the victim’s attention with something, quietly removing bills from the wallet. He can do the same by throwing at him the same coin that he asked to exchange.

German Pickpockets
5. Reception with ketchup, coffee or ice cream
Most often used near banks or ATMs. The clothes of a victim who has just withdrawn money are allegedly inadvertently soiled with ketchup, coffee, ice cream or lemonade. Exuberantly apologizing for the trouble and trying to clean the clothes, the criminal deftly takes out bills from the wallet or takes out the entire wallet entirely.

German Pickpockets
6. Restaurant reception
The victims in this case are largely to blame. Anyone who carelessly hangs a jacket or jacket on the back of a chair should not be too surprised that sooner or later someone will pull out a wallet or a mobile phone from them. The same can be said about handbags, carelessly hung on the back. If the table is located in a passageway near the door, at some point the handbag can quietly make legs.

German Pickpockets
7. Reception at the supermarket
The perpetrator addresses a chosen victim who has hung a bag on the handle of a shopping cart or who has placed their bag in the cart. He asks for help to find him a certain product. Example: “Where did they hide the salt here?” While a kind person is trying to help, while being distracted, a wallet disappears from his bag, which usually becomes clear only near the cash register.

German Pickpockets
8. Beggarly reception
It is always performed by a group of children and teenagers. They are somewhere in a diner or street cafe asking for money using a sign. As soon as the victim is distracted, someone from the gang quickly steals the wallet from the table or pulls it out of a bag or pocket. Possible option: a group of children surround a passerby on the street, playing, so to speak, a beggarly scenario. Adult members of the gang are somewhere nearby.

German Pickpockets
9. Reception with flowers
Some stranger greets the victim on the street, hugs, attaching a flower to his clothes – say, a red carnation. While the victim, in confusion, tries to understand why she received such a sign of attention, the thief leaves with the stolen wallet.

German Pickpockets
10. Reception “porter service”
In this criminal scenario, the target of criminals are elderly people returning home with their purchases – heavy bags from the grocery store. The thief or thief offers his help, takes the bags, climbs the stairs faster than the victim, managing to search through them and pull out the entire wallet or money from it.

German Pickpockets
11. Pick up
It is used in pubs or bars – crowded, cheerful, conducive to communication and jokes. One of the visitors (the thief) approaches the victim and says that he can determine the weight of a person on a dare by lifting him from the floor. While hugging the victim, the perpetrator pulls out a wallet or mobile phone.

German Pickpockets
Back-dance on the street
It is often used on the streets in the entertainment districts. The victims are people, for example, those who have left clubs and discos. Attackers first ask, for example, to light a cigarette or smoke, and then offer to dance for joy or symbolically play football … without a ball. At the same time, they pull out a purse or other things from the pockets of the victim with lightning speed.
Author: Maxim Nelyubin