Vten days ago, officers of the GSG-9 attacked in a blitz. In front of a café on Windscheidstrasse in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district, they arrested Abdallah Abou-Chaker when he left the guest room for a moment. The 40-year-old man is a member of an extended Arab family known for their criminal activities and cousin of the alleged clan chief Arafat Abou-Chaker. According to multiple reports, Abdallah Abou-Chaker was taken by car to a helicopter after being arrested in a flash. With him he was flown out of Berlin to another place where a private jet was waiting.
The stateless man, who had multiple criminal records, was deported to Lebanon by plane. There he spent a week in a collective cell with 35 other people at the airport in the capital Beirut. He is now free. According to the “Bild” newspaper, he was taken to a hotel. His lawyers would now try to challenge the deportation.
Convicted of pimping, drug dealing and extortion
The Berlin interior administration had tried several times to deport the man known as an intensive offender. However, Lebanon had refused to take him in, probably also because his citizenship had not been officially established for a long time. This has changed now. In Germany, Abdallah Abou-Chaker has already been in prison for a total of ten years. He was convicted, among other things, of pimping, extortion and drug trafficking. There had been numerous investigations against him. He was last in custody in February, but he was acquitted in a trial on suspicion of forced prostitution and rape.
Posts from Lebanon: In his Instagram story, Abdallah Abou-Chaker documents, among other things, a visit to a bar.
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Image: Instagram / abdallah_svj
At large again, the man from Lebanon has now posted photos on Instagram showing him relaxing while smoking shisha, his hotel room with a view of the sea and a visit to a bar at the city’s port. In response to a message from a friend who hopes to be able to welcome him back to Berlin soon, he wrote: “Inshallah, I’ll be back soon”. Last year, Abou-Chaker, who allegedly does not speak Arabic, received another two-year suspension in Berlin. The Berlin State Office for Immigration has confirmed the “compulsory execution of an exit order”, but has not given any further information. However, it is clear that such measures are only taken if there is a correspondingly large criminal potential among the deportees. Abdallah Abou-Chaker is the eldest of four brothers, all of whom have had multiple troubles with the law.
Alongside the Remmo family, the Abou-Chaker family is particularly notorious among the “ethnically isolated structures of Arabic origin”, as the Berlin police call clan crime. The alleged clan leader Arafat Abou-Chaker is particularly well known. A trial against him and three of his brothers has been going on for more than two years in front of the Berlin district court. It’s about deprivation of liberty, severe extortion, coercion, dangerous bodily harm and insult – and many millions of euros. The crimes are said to have been committed against singer Anis Ferchichi, known as Bushido, who was once a business partner of Arafat Abou-Chaker. Arafat Abou-Chaker made good money on Bushido, for which he gave him credibility as a gangster rapper. After Bushido wanted to get out of the business relationship, Arafat Abu-Chaker and his brothers are said to have held him for hours, threatened him and hit him with a bottle, among other things. However, it seems questionable whether the court, which intends to pass judgment in January, will consider the crimes a given.
Arafat Abou-Chaker and Bushido, who now lives in Dubai, bought a large property together in Kleinmachnow, a middle-class suburb of Berlin, which is worth 14.8 million and is to be divided after the two men’s dispute. When the property was auctioned off in June, it went to the only bidder, Achmed Abou-Chaker, a then 19-year-old son of Arafat, who bought it for the minimum bid of 7.4 million euros. Since then, the public prosecutor’s office in Bochum has been investigating suspected money laundering in connection with the auction.
According to a situation report from last year, the police in Berlin count almost 400 clan criminals. In the course of a year, more than 1,000 crimes were attributed to the clans, mainly theft, robbery and drug trafficking. Most crimes were committed between the ages of 18 and 25.
