Focus wrote up a fine piece today on Berlin today.
It's a fact-driven news piece which talks about the amount of crime going on in Berlin. If you follow recent headlines around the city....some sixty-year-old art historian gal was found dead with a guy-friend of hers....near the Berlin Tiergarten area. The accused? Some Russian kid (18 years old).
The Focus piece goes into detail then about an increase in aggressive behavior seen around the city, illicit drug sales up, and very noticeable uptrend in hookers (mostly east European). All of this circles around 'camps' which have popped up in various parks in the city now. These used to be mostly just German homeless people.....now? It's a wide array of nationalities.
Focus even notes that the bulk of the alcohol and drug users are mostly from eastern Europe.
At some point in the article....there's an interesting statistic shown....roughly 568,000 criminal cases were noted by the cops in 2016. For most Berlin residents....it's now to the point of requiring the city authorities to do something....but no one is really sure how to handle this. If you went out to round up people....then what? Would you actually deport people? It's doubtful. Would you toss the alcoholics into some rehab program and force them to move to rural areas, or leave the city?
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