Thursday, December 27, 2018

Wiesbaden and Knives

Tonight, I pulled up the local Wiesbaden police-related news.  There's three knife-related stories since Christmas eve in the city.  There's a fourth story from the early hours of the 24th where four women got into a serious fist-fight (without the knives) in the middle of town, where cops had to come and lay down the law.

All of this comes in the week prior to the weapons-free zone law taking effect in the middle of Wiesbaden.  The fine for just having a knife on you?  It could go up to 5,000 Euro.  My humble guess is that a threat or assault with the weapon will get you the max of the 5,000.....and just having a knife will be enough for a 1,000 Euro. 

It's amazing how this knife-threat business has grown over the past five years in the city. 

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