Category: German Police

German Police Bust International Cocaine Smuggling Gang

BERLIN—German police said on Tuesday that 14 people suspected of smuggling several tonnes of cocaine from South America to Germany were arrested and their decade-old trafficking route dismantled as part of an international investigation. Twenty-eight suspects are suspected of links to nine shipments totalling nearly five tonnes of cocaine, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)…


German Police Raid Suspected Islamic Extremists in Berlin

BERLIN—Hundreds of German police officers conducted coordinated raids early Thursday in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg in the investigation of an organization banned over allegations of Islamic extremism. Some 850 police, including SWAT teams, were involved in the raids of apartments linked to members of the organization known as Jama’atu Berlin, the state…