Berlin/Rampe (dpa/mv) – There have also been searches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in connection with the ban on the rocker-like group “United Tribunes”. Investigators from the State Criminal Police Office (LKA), with the support of the SEK and the riot police, searched the apartments of four club members in the Ludwigslust-Parchim and Northwest Mecklenburg districts and in Schwerin in the morning, the LKA said on Wednesday in Rampe.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) had previously banned the group, which has around 100 members in Germany. The association and its 13 “chapters” will be dissolved and the association’s assets confiscated, according to the ministry. According to the information, a total of private apartments and club rooms in nine federal states were searched. According to Faeser, serious crimes such as sex offenses, human trafficking and attempted homicide have occurred in the past.
According to the LKA in the north-east, violations of the Weapons Act, the Narcotics Act and the Medicines Act were found during the searches on Wednesday, evidence was secured and appropriate investigations were initiated.