German police union GdP has issued a stark warning about the city’s rising gang violence, with spokesman Benjamin Jendro describing the situation as a permanent state of street fights involving machetes, knives, and firearms “practically every weekend.”
“It is a big problem,” he said, adding that rival gangs are battling over “drug trafficking, prostitution, and protection rackets.”
Jendro further expressed concern about the growing visibility of these violent clashes, saying rival networks, including Arab, African, and Chechen clans, are all seeking their share: “They want a piece of this big cake.”
Another police union, the DPolG union, recently branded the capital’s streets “Wild West,” following a violent clash in Neukölln involving stone-throwing and stab wounds.
The union’s Berlin state chair Bodo Pfalzgraf stated bluntly: “The state’s authority is eroding, because the police are not taken seriously.” He urged the government to enact swift and firm justice.
