Missing Story

There's a curious piece I watched yesterday on SWR TV (Pfalz regional public TV).  It has to do with missing Germans.

So from all of 2019, there are around 300 Pfalz residents who came up missing (for that matter, the majority....245....were gone more than 60 days).

Cops will take the report and at least make an effort to find the individual....mostly out of fear that an accident occurred or maybe the gal's bike went off the side of a cliff.

With a population of just over 4-million, the police say they average around 200 additions and deletions every single day to the missing database.  Some folks return home.....some just walk out.  But the bulk (just over 50-percent) of folks missing....are usually found within seven days of the original report being issued.  A lot of these would simply be teenagers fed up with 'control' and left to stay over at some friend's house for a week or two.

So you come down to the list of folks who are on the list for 12 months, and the police say that only 3-percent of the folks who get on the list.....make it through past 12 months.....still missing.

The curious piece to the story is the note that unaccompanied minor children (refugee kids under 18) tend to fall on the list a fair amount.  The journalist doesn't really ask any questions over this.  The fact that they don't get picked up or noticed in another state?  This would make me ask more questions.  Did the kids leave Germany?  Did the kids travel back to Syria or Tunisia?  Or are the kids simply camping out in the woods for long-term?  It kinda leaves you wondering.