Founded | 1980s |
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Founding location | Bremen, Germany |
Years active | 1980s–present |
Territory | Primarily Lower Saxony, as well as Berlin, Bremen and North Rhine-Westphalia[1] |
Ethnicity | Mhallami-German |
Leader(s) | Ibrahim Miri, Heisem Miri |
Activities | Drug trafficking, armed robbery, arms trafficking, assault, extortion, fraud, money laundering, murder, kidnapping, prostitution |
Allies | Al-Zein clan Hells Angels MC |
Rivals | Bandidos MC Mongols MC |
The Miri clan is a organized crime cartel in Germany. The Miri clan is mostly active in Bremen, partly also in Essen and Berlin. The organization is active in protection rackets, arms-, drug- and illegal medicine trafficking, as well as trafficking and exploiting people for prostitution. In Bremen, around 30 families with 3,500 members are assigned to the Miri clan, and over 8,000 - 10,000 nationwide.
The members of the Mardelli family-group arrived in Germany in the 1980s as refugees from Lebanon and Algeria. The Miri clan is less about directly related people than about members and descendants of a specific ethnic group, the Mhallami. The clan is also in Turkey and Sweden.[2][3][4][5]
The Miri Family intermarry with other clan members to keep the power balance of the Family according to Ralph Ghadban .[6]