Sunday, May 17, 2015

The Duisburg Fight

It's one of those episodes that won't get any notice in German national news tonight (they always hype European or world news).

Somewhere in the events of Duisburg (a cit to the far north of Germany) last night (Thursday).....a fight occurred.  What cops this will generally say is that a minimum of 250 people were involved in this brawl of sorts.

The centerpoint?  An internet cafe.....strangely enough.

As cops began to arrive.....people dispersed and what was generally left was the internet cafe in a state of chaos and destruction.

The trigger to the event?  Unknown.  There's not a single person, it appears.....that has spoken up on the cause of the fight.

The best guess?  Germans don't usually hang around internet cafe operations.....that's one thing I've noticed over the past decade.  Most Germans have a home connection and wouldn't waste time or money at some internet cafe.  Those who frequent the internet cafes?  Mostly immigrants.  The internet cafe operations tend to be a place where you can browse, do cellphone business (buy time for example), perform cash transactions, and provide cover for guys to chat out of reach of their relatives.

Perhaps some guy said something or had some cash debt issue, and it just grew out of proportion.  Anyway......a curious German event for the week.

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