Miri-Clan

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Miri clan
Founded1980s
Founding location Bremen, Germany
Years active1980s–present
TerritoryPrimarily Lower Saxony, as well as Berlin, Bremen and North Rhine-Westphalia [1]
Ethnicity Lebanese-German
Leader(s)Ibrahim Miri, Heisem Miri
ActivitiesDrug trafficking, armed robbery, arms trafficking, assault, extortion, fraud, money laundering, murder, kidnapping, prostitution
Allies Al-Zein clan
Hells Angels MC
Rivals Bandidos MC
Mongols MC

The Miri clan is a Sunni Lebanese mafia group based in Germany. The clan consists of over 30 extended families who arrived in Germany in the 1980s as refugees from Lebanon. They are particularly prominent in Bremen, where they have around 3,600 members. In Germany, experts assume there are over 10,000 members. The clan is also active in Turkey and Sweden. [2] [3] [4]

The Miri Family intermarry with other clan members to keep the power balance of the Family according to Ralph Ghadban  [ de ]. [5]

They are active in all of Lower Saxony. It is estimated that, in the city of Bremen alone, the group makes approximately €50 million each year from drug-related crime. [6]

The Arab crime families are particularly active in Hannover, Hildesheim, Stade, Achim, Wilhelmshaven, Peine, Göttingen, Osnabrück, Braunschweig, Salzgitter, Hameln, Lüneburg, Bremen and Delmenhorst.

They run the Mongols Motorcycle Club in Germany, and have challenged the Hells Angels. The Hells Angels president offered them €250,000 to join him. [7]

On 30 January 2009, Hussein Al Zein was shot and his fiancée was seriously injured. Heisem Miri (the perpetrator) is now on the run and is suspected of being in the Middle East. [8]

In July 2019, a Bandidos hairdresser was shot in Dortmund by a member of the Miri family. The shooter has not yet been found. Since then, it has been comparatively quiet. Also in 2019, the rapper 18 Karat from the environment of the Miri Family was arrested after a shooting. Later he was released because he had an alibi. Previously, four brothers of the Miri Family had also been arrested by the police in Bochum. [9]

On 10 July 2019, GSG 9 police officers arrested and escorted 46-year-old Ibrahim Miri from his apartment in Bremen, flew him to Berlin in a Federal Police helicopter and deported him to Beirut, Lebanon. [10]

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