The clans fight: Drug war brings Ottakring to the edge of the chaos!

The clans fight: Drug war brings Ottakring to the edge of the chaos!

Ottakring, Österreich - Vienna, the cultural heart of Austria, is becoming increasingly the backdrop for criminal machinations that are imported from the Balkans. A recently uncovered murder attack, which was planned in January 2020, shows how unscrupulously the crime environment has become. The perpetrator belongs to the notorious Kavac clan that grows and thrives in Vienna.

In January 2020, a member of the KAVAC clan was able to escape a murder attack when an explosive device under his vehicle did not detonate due to a weak battery of the ignition mechanism. A short time later, another attempted murder followed, which further tightened the situation. Terms from Colombia, equipped with sound -damped pistols, traveled to eliminate high -ranking clan members. But this attempt also failed - communication problems with a Serbian translator led to a double failure of the attack, in which the instruction of eliminating other people for safety reasons hung in the air.

a network of terror

The background of these criminal attacks are deeply rooted: According to the results of the Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office (BK), at least 36 tons of drugs have been smuggled through Austria in recent years, which earned the organized crime groups at least 86 million euros. In particular, two Montenegrin clans have established themselves as solid sizes in domestic drug trafficking. A well-known Serbian restaurant in Ottakring has established itself as a meeting point for the Serbian-Montenegrin drug mafia, which also heats up the immense tensions between the groups.

The failed attempt at assassination in February 2020 shows how high the missions in this drug war are. A trial against one of the accused who is charged with attempted incitement to murder will soon begin at the Vienna Regional Court. He is said to have planned the attack and passed on information about the intended victims. A dark shadow is on the two target persons: they were targeted because of the murder of a Serbs in 2018. The connection between the cavac and rival scaljari clan has led to at least 80 violent deaths in Europe since 2014.

crime on international parquet

The bomb designed in a failed bombing in February 2020 could not detonate, and the main planners of the attack, who were kidnapped and killed and killed, show the dangers that go hand in hand with these criminal machinations. The operational manager was arrested in Montenegro in February 2024 and is being sought in Austria. Nothing is certain in this turbulent world, even the contract killers themselves are often not protected from the raging mouths of their own crime organizations. One of the Colombian killers died of pesticide poisoning in his homeland in August 2023, and investigators question the circumstances of his death.

The extent of organized crime, which Austria is slowly but surely transforming into a breeding ground for drug trafficking and attempts at murder, is alarming. The Federal Criminal Police Office recently ensured weapons, narcotics and crypto mandics in a large-scale raid in North Rhine-Westphalia. The investigation was carried out in cooperation with international organizations such as Europol and the US drug control authority. As already reported, the connections of the Balkan cartel are far-reaching and strong, the criminal structures are now more than worrying in Austria and beyond.

It makes sense for the domestic security authorities to increase surveillance powers. BK director Andreas Holzer calls for more freedom of action for the police, in particular with regard to encrypted messaging services. Time is urging, because the fight against organized crime is not easier.

The events in and around Austria show that the influence of organized crime is no longer just in secret - it has become a serious threat to society. Observers are alarmed and have the feeling that you have to adapt to dynamic developments, because drug trafficking and the associated acts of violence do not make a stop.

We keep you up to date with further developments. In the meantime, many are wondering: Where is Vienna in the fight against these dark machinations?