Police raids yesterday took place at 60 different homes/businesses across Germany, over the topic of illegals in the country....working in the butcher/meat processing business.
ARD (public TV, Channel One) told most of this story and it's worth a review.
800 police were involved in this, and it appears to have been planned out for at least a month.
Number of illegals at the heart of this matter? 82.
It does appear to be a 'gang-effort', and various non-EU folks were smuggled into the country....to do butcher work. Some were even identified as 'students on a work-holiday' on their paperwork.
What this is all leading to? The meat processing industry in Germany is under heavy pressure to deliver their products for X-amount on pricing, and with the standard set for normal German workers....they can't make what they consider a reasonable profit. If you were to process the meat at a non-German site (say in Romania) and just truck it into Germany....most grocery operations wouldn't touch the product or sell it.
Bottom line? The business model that has been around for several decades....has reached a end-point. Basically, at some point over the next year....you are going to see a 20-to-30 percent mark-up (my best guess) on all meat products you buy at the German grocery.
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