On September 20, the far-left German party Die Linke achieved the top spot in the Berlin State Parliament elections, garnering 25.7 percent of the vote, ahead of the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), which obtained 18.8 percent of the vote, and the rising right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), which won 16.3 percent. It is a stunning success for the legal successor to the former East German Communist Party, 37 years after soldiers stopped shooting people at the Berlin Wall.
In the thrill of victory, politicians in Die Linke party initially welcomed members of Arab criminal clans and Palestinian terror activists to their election celebrations. According to the German news site t-online.de, one person, Berlin clan leader Issa Remmo, was asked to leave. Nevertheless, the ensuing scandal shed light on Die Linke’s drive to mobilize the migrant and Islamist vote through door-to-door canvassing as part of a campaign advised by Morris Katz, a campaign strategist for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Die Linke Bundestag member Ferat Koçak, one of the most radically anti-Israel voices in Germany and a participant in pro-Palestinian rallies in Berlin, including one with Jeremy Corbyn in February 2025, appeared in a photograph of the election party with Ibrahim Ibrahim, a representative of the United Palestinian National Committee.
The Jüdische Allgemeine reported that the Berlin office for Protection of the Constitution described the United Palestinian National Committee as a platform for cooperation between Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, two groups involved in the massacres of October 7, 2023. According to the German news outlet Der Tagesspiegel, Ibrahim celebrated October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar as a “steadfast leader” and a “martyred hero.”
Greetings and props to your father. When are you in your office so I can come by?
The Left and the Mob
Issa Remmo, head of the powerful Lebanese Remmo clan—implicated in numerous criminal offenses, including the theft of the 220 pound “Big Maple Leaf” gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017 and the 2019 jewel heist at Dresden’s Green Vault—also attended. When photos of Remmo’s appearance at the party became public, Koçak initially claimed he did not know who Remmo was. The crime boss’s son, Firas Remmo, exposed this misdirection by publishing a chat with Koçak, proving the mobsters’ presence at the Left’s election party was no fluke: “Greetings and props to your father. When are you in your office so I can come by?”
The thread also showed Koçak asking the mobster’s son to share one of his political speeches criticizing the “hysterical debate” about criminal Arab clans. “Please ask all your people to share,” Koçak wrote. “Gladly, brother,” Firas Remmo replied. If Koçak has the backing of a social media army tied to organized crime clans, this would go a long way to explaining why his social media posts often go viral.
Subsequent reports showed the Remmo clan was not the only Arab criminal clan at the Left’s election party in the migrant quarter of Neukölln. Two social media influencers associated with the Palestinian Barbakh clan, who often provide the muscle at pro-Palestine protests, were also spotted. Berlin police union spokesman Benjamin Jendro described the Barbakh clan as “hardcore Hamas propagandists.”
Resignation
Amid the ensuing scandal, Ferat Koçak resigned from the Bundestag interior committee, which involves access to sensitive security information. Critics pointed out that Koçak filed several parliamentary queries regarding Berlin police measures against local crime clans as a member of the Berlin legislative council in 2022 and 2023. Most recently, it emerged that Koçak’s aunt and several cousins reside in buildings owned by the Remmos and that Koçak was aware of this fact.
The photos of the victory party lend credence to suspicions of a close collaboration between the Lebanese mob (which took over large parts of Berlin after fleeing to Germany in the 1970s and 1980s) and Islamist terrorist organizations affiliated with the PFLP, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
When this writer asked a leading local expert on Lebanese clans in Germany about the ties between organized crime, Iranian-Venezuelan arms and drug smuggling, and Islamic terrorism, he declined to comment in fear for his own life.
All this raises concerns about the emerging political sway of these narco-terrorists and their ties to parties such as Die Linke, whose lead candidate is reportedly negotiating with the other leftist parties to become the next mayor of Berlin.