Miri-Clan

The Miri clan or Miri crime family is an 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 Syria, Turkey and Lebanon. The Miri clan is less about directly related people than about members and descendants of a specific ethnic group, the Mhallami who are originally from Mardin. The Clan is also in Turkey and Sweden. The Miri Family intermarry with other clan members to keep the power balance of the Family, according to Ralph Ghadban.