'Nebulous'

Cops often use short blunt phrases to emphasize a situation, and the word 'nebulous' came up yesterday in Frankfurt.

What apparently occurred was that multiple gunshots were fired in the downtown area of Frankfurt (something that just never happens)....near the Konstablerwache area (if you've ever been there, this is end of the shopping district).  Via Twitter, the Frankfurt police put out a warning for residents around the district to stay indoors, and wait.

Via cameras and witnesses.....they eventually came to four guys and detained them.  A gun and knife were confiscated and they are attempting to put the story together.

Gang warfare?  I might go and suspect that a discussion came up....maybe some debt or problem was being worked, and people got hostile. 

The thing is....you just don't have warfare going on much on the streets of Germany, and pistols in this type of circumstance are just awful rare.  But this is another indicator of the evolving atmosphere in Germany since the 1980s.  Various gangs and crime-clans are at work, and infringing upon each other's turf.  My guess is that none of the four are talking and the cops might be forced to release them.