Police raids in Germany: hundreds of officers target Gremium MC motorcycle club
Hundreds of police officers conducted raids on properties linked to Gremium MC in Baden-Württemberg. The club is suspected of connections to organised crime.
Large-scale police operation against Gremium MC in Baden-Württemberg
Hundreds of police officers were deployed on Thursday in the state of Baden-Württemberg in south-west Germany to search properties and meeting places associated with the Gremium MC motorcycle club, according to DHnet. The operation follows the banning of several chapters of the club.
Gremium MC, founded in Mannheim in 1972, is the subject of an investigation due to its alleged links to organised crime. In 2021, the authorities had already banned a chapter active in the Heidelberg region. The Ministry of the Interior had then designated Gremium MC as the country's largest "outlaw motorcycle gang".
According to the authorities, the group seeks to expand its territorial and financial influence in the motorcycle scene through the use of violence. The latest security report from Baden-Württemberg states that motorcycle gangs frequently maintain links to organised crime, particularly in the fields of extortion, drug trafficking and prostitution.
The Ministry of the Interior confirmed the raids in an official statement, without specifying the number of arrests or the exact scope of seizures made during the operation.
Source: DHnet