North African Gangs: The Drug Market and Its New Masters #589 FALTER

North African gangs have taken control of the drug trade in Vienna – with unbelievable brutality

Time review: The muggy phase of the last few days is coming to an end – apart from a few harmless little clouds, the sun is predominantly up to 23 degrees. Type!

Good morning!

We know each other so well that you know we hate to bother you with horror at this time of day – especially on Mondays after long weekends. Today we are going to make an exception because it is important. It’s against the backdrop of a particularly brutal murder in Vienna.

You may recall: In early May, a young man was practically slaughtered by machete-wielding attackers in front of the U6 Jägerstraße station (we’ll spare ourselves and you the details for now). The police investigation revealed that the victim and the alleged perpetrators are all from North Africa.

The case draws attention to a highly problematic development in Vienna’s drug market that has so far gone largely unnoticed by the general public. The city’s drug trade has gradually been taken over by North African gangs in recent years – and according to police findings, they are far more organized and also far more brutal than the West Africans who previously dominated the business.

I spoke with Group Inspector Gernot Kaes about the background last week. The criminalist leads the AG (working group) “Maghreb”, which takes care of the phenomenon of evil. Read the interview with him below.

You can also read on today’s FALTER.morgen: Why the detention center at Lipa refugee camp in Bosnia should not be put into operation. AND Florian Holzer takes you on his weekly Grätzel tour of the courtyards of the Schottenstift in the city center.

Have a good day

Soraya Pechtl

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“A well-organized drug distribution network was established in Vienna”

Criminalist Gernot Kaes on the advance of North African gangs in Vienna.

FOLDER.tomorrow: Do North African drug dealers really control the entire drug market in Vienna?

Cheese: At first, North Africans sold only herbal cannabis (marijuana) and cannabis resin (hashish). Only later did they also become involved in the trafficking of cocaine, sometimes heroin and synthetic drugs. When it comes to cannabis, North Africans are almost certainly at the forefront in Vienna. In the market for cocaine, heroin and synthetic drugs, we tend to find them in the bottom third of the hierarchy – that is, in terms of quantity sold.

Keplerplatz in Favoriten has been Vienna’s new drug hangout for quite some time.

What distinguishes North African drug traffickers from the Nigerians who previously controlled the market?

Cheese: Unlike North Africans, Nigerians are not structurally organized. And among North Africans, the quality of drugs sold is much worse.

Are North African drug traffickers more violent?

Cheese: In contrast to West African drug traffickers, they are often armed with stabs, slashes and firearms.

You talked about North Africans going up. How can you imagine this?

Cheese: By “working high” it means that initially they only sold drugs on the street. However, a well-organized drug distribution network was also established in Austria and Vienna, as was already the case in other countries. This ensures that there is never any idleness in sales, as has always been the case with Nigerians.

Is it true that dealers have their headquarters in France and from there are sent to Austria?

Cheese: Based on our investigations, two main North African organizers and perpetrators were found who were certainly located at the top hierarchical level. They were subsequently arrested in France and Italy and transferred to Vienna. But they are also responsible for ensuring that the structure is maintained and “traitors” or other people who endanger the structure are sanctioned. Based on AG Maghreb’s findings, we assume that both middle management level and sellers (both larger quantities and also so-called “street dealers”) from France, but also from Spain, will be shipped to Austria.

How do you explain this development? Where are North African drug traffickers coming from all of a sudden?

Cheese: The development is almost logical, since there is a market and it must be served reliably and reliably from a consumer point of view. With the refugee movement in 2015, many North Africans came to Europe and Austria. The average monthly income in Algeria is currently 350 dollars (about 326 euros). Such an amount can be earned in Vienna in a week without big problems. Since she successfully lured the money.

The Maghreb task force has seized 450 kilograms of marijuana, five kilograms of heroin and 4.5 kilograms of cocaine since it was created in 2016. There have also been more than 1,000 arrests. It’s a huge number. Why is the business still thriving?

Cheese: Despite extensive investigations, arrests and arrests, this is just part of the drugs and money that are hidden in Vienna. As there are several North Africans in Europe, arrested suspects are also replaced by other people in a very short time.

Ganymede Bridge

Summer is getting hot! In two cool museums, 30 artists dance, sing and play in front of the masterpieces and animals on display. Be inspired by an incredible performance about the connection between art and nature! Take part in a crazy journey between two worlds that couldn’t be more different!

At the Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.

They are the most internationally successful rock group from the German-speaking area. At the end of July, Rammstein’s musicians will fill Austria’s biggest sports stadium twice. But should the performance at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna (capacity: 47,500 spectators) still take place?

In recent weeks, several women have had severe Vallegations against Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann created. He is said to employ a 35-year-old former Russian actress as a kind of assistant who, according to special visual criteria, chooses young women for him via social media or directly at concerts and invites them to after-show parties – there as potential material for the singer’s sexual fantasies to be available. Some of the women were allegedly given drugs. Lindemann vehemently rejects the accusations (Gerhard Stöger summed up everything about the cause in the current Falter).

The Viennese Greens are now up for the Cancellation of two concerts in July The. “After these serious allegations became known, the organizers must be aware that a concert by this band is not a safe place for women. Until the allegations are fully clarified, these concerts in Vienna will have to be cancelled.” Green Women Spokesperson Viktoria Spielmann in a broadcast.

The City of Vienna requires organizers to Precautions to protect concert-goers They are true. “The basic condition for the concerts in Vienna is the implementation of the measures that were already applied in Munich. They are: no 0 queue (note: this should be reserved for young women who can go on stage after the show), buffer zones, no post-show parties, and no awareness teams. All women should feel safe and comfortable in our city,” she says.

What world sensation can be seen in the Schönbrunn reserve garden?

Friday release: Our satellite image showed the Ottakring Clinic.

© Geoland

Soraya Pechtl

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The controversial detention center at the Lipa Bosnian refugee camp will not be operational for the time being. The backgrounds.

There was a lot of excitement about the detention center in Lipa Bosnian refugee camp. the austrian International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) was hired by the Bosnian Ministry of Security to set up twelve cells at the container depot in the border town of Bihać in recent months, in which migrants can be temporarily held. The whole thing was funded by the European Union. NGOs such as the Austrian route SOS Balkan have warned of a European Guantánamo.

It is already clear: the internment cells will not work for the time being. How did this happen?

The detention center consists of twelve shipping containers, the fences are even higher than in the rest of the camp (© FALTER/ Pechtl)

From the beginning, the Bosnian authorities were not very transparent in their communication. Vacillating inquiries about this have remained largely unanswered (read a report by Lipa here). The Ministry of Security did not allow inspection of the refugee camp or internment cells. Furthermore, the regional government in the Canton of Una Sana and Elvedin Sedić, the responsible mayor of Bihać were not informed of the construction. Only later there were talks with representatives of the EU. They were able to smooth things over a bit. “There was a lot of speculation. The story was made bigger than it is. The media also caused an uproar. In the end, wrongly”, Sedić told Falter at the time. international organizations in the field of migration”.

The project has now been put on hold. And if it’s after Bosnian Human Rights Minister Sevlid Hurtić will, the detention center must remain closed forever. “The newly built facilities are closed and will remain closed for the time being,” Hurtić told Politicki. Apparently, there is still no legal basis for commissioning in Bosnia.

The issue of detaining migrants is a delicate one. “It must be regulated by law, and any restriction of freedom must serve the legal purpose it is intended to achieve,” says von Vaša Prava, a Bosnian NGO, which offers free legal advice in the field of asylum, to FALTER.morgen. In Lipa, the purpose of detention would be to detain migrants who pose a threat to others for a maximum of 72 hours. The problem: Currently, it is only at immigration centers (i.e. facilities to accommodate asylum seekers that are monitored) that migrants can be temporarily detained. And even there only if certain conditions are met – for example, for people who must be expelled, who pose a threat to the public or who provide dubious information. Therefore, if the Lipa refugee camp center comes into operation, it will first have to change the law.

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© ARGE Karto

The eight courtyards of the monastery at Freyung are almost a small part of the city and house not only a secondary school, but also two of the most beautiful guest gardens in the city and, last but not least, the administration of the monastery itself. goods as well as a monastery shop, where the resulting products can be purchased.

O Wirtshaus Zattl offers a good Pilsner Urquell and a beautiful beer garden, in Diglas coffee At Schottenstift you can get really good food in the almost equally beautiful garden next to it.

There are three places on Rockhgasse, one of which is interesting, namely the Hebenstreit Restaurant. This exquisite lounge bar on the mezzanine level was founded in the late 1980s as a kind of gastronomic by-product of the so-called “Republican Club” – a civil society association that uses artistic and discursive means to combat racism and right-wing extremism.

and finally that the tent, this is a delightful mini-restaurant and has been the best Portuguese restaurant in the country for almost 20 years.

The entire Gratzel tour from Florian Holzer with all the restaurants mentioned on the map read here.

Gerhard Stoeger

literature

The author from USA TC Boyle In the novel “Blue Skies” he is dedicated to his personal theme: nature and its destruction by man. In doing so, he paints a suitably bleak picture of our present and near future. In other hands, the novel might have been the unpleasant read of the year. However, Boyle’s dark and bitter humor ensures that the best entertainment is provided, in addition to the end-of-the-world mood. Michael Köhlmeier takes over the German part of the outdoor reading. (Sebastian Fasthuber)

Theater in the Park, 8pm

Opera

Bored with the monotony of her life, young and beautiful Katerina suffers from her husband’s inability to love and her father-in-law’s tyrannical behavior. An affair with worker Sergej leads to a deadly catastrophe. In his opera, premiered in 1934, Dmitri Shostakovich addressed the resistance of the Soviet cultural bureaucracy “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” eroticism for the first time. Latest date for Matthias Hartmann’s drastic production revival. (Miriam Damev)

State Opera, 7 p.m.

Philipp Felsch: How Nietzsche Came Out of the Cold

More than 30 years ago I attended lectures on Friedrich Nietzsche for a few semesters. The schnauzer walrus transporter was very popular again at that time. But what else do I remember? Because Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche distilled a work from her brother’s estate that never existed: “The Will to Power”. In doing so, she served the Nazis. Our professor therefore recommended the new, extremely fancy paperback edition. We were surprised at the time that both editors of this “definitive edition” of Nietzsche were Italian.

Philipp Felsch, Professor of Cultural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin, tells how this happened in his successful double biography of Giorgio Colli (1917-1979) and Mazzino Montinari (1928-1986). In his latest book, “The Long Summer of Theory,” Felsch impressively demonstrated that it is possible to write intelligent, readable books on supposedly difficult-to-communicate subjects such as poststructural philosophy. Your recipe for success: contextualization, personalization and your own style. Whether about ideological trench warfare in postwar Italy or the ramifications of the French reception of Nietzsche in the 1960s: Felsch is able to succinctly delineate these intellectual debates in just a few sentences. (Oliver Hochadel)

The full review and more about the book at faltershop.at

@ “In the coup waiting room” by Soraya Pechtl, FALTER.morgen #588

Perhaps the medical association should ensure that there are enough general practitioners who still work nights, Sundays and holidays, so KH’s clinics would be less crowded!

Johanna Blank

@ City News by Soraya Pechtl, FALTER.morgen #586

Thank you very much for the quick contribution from Babeler, you are in a good mood!!!

As far as traffic and environmental protection are concerned, I think it’s a shame that the topic is so often reduced to CO2.

It’s just this element that seems commercially viable. This – our – ecosystem is dying for a number of reasons, as we all know, right?

I think Charles Eisenstein does a good job of shedding light on the root of this potentially profitable narrow gauge solution.

Monica Moser

@ “Babler’s Problems” by Florian Klenk, FALTER.morgen #586

Aside from the catastrophic events in the vote count, I would see Babler’s victory as a victory over the social democratic establishment, which indeed lives in luxury compared to those who can no longer afford rent and energy costs: former SPÖ chancellors, who earn much more than 10,000 euros a month or even more; whose children attend exclusively private schools; former and current employees who maintain profitable business relationships due to their previous and current influential activities (eg Gusenbauer) and maintain close contact with parade of capitalists à la Benkö.

Those ex-chancellors or SPÖ officials who are still alive and who also recommended Rendi-Wagner as president have long had nothing to do with social democracy in the original, original sense. For this clientele, neglected by the Reds, Babler would once again be a hope.

A Mr. Babeler would always be more desirable than a Mr. Kickl at the head of a government.

Christian Trummer

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