Over in Lower Saxony (the German state), there's this town of Gottingen (roughly 120k residents). On the map, this is just north of Hessen. Over the past couple of days, it's been in the news, and Focus carried a pretty decent update to the problems going on there.
So, the Coronavirus has taken off again in the local area. What the authorities report.....189 new and fresh cases of the virus in recent days.
What the police say....is that several family celebrations (sounds like birthday parties, but that's kinda left for your imagination)....occurred, and someone passed Corona onto some other folks.
The big story to this is that a fair number of the new infected come from ONE single neighborhood, and ONE single apartment building.
So the authorities came in and did a shocker....they set up a quarantine zone for that one building. Doesn't matter if you have the virus or not....if you live in it....you are on quarantine rules.
You can imagine the hostility of non-virus folks....at both the authorities, and the neighbors.
Yesterday (Saturday), cops were trying to enforce the 'zone', and locals got hostile about this, with rocks being thrown upon the police.
Number of people living in the structure? Around 700, more or less.
At some point on Saturday afternoon....building residents went to the next phase....escaping from the structure. You can put yourself into their shoes....if you don't have the virus, you would not want to remain in the building....waiting to get the virus. So as they attempted to escape....cops were there to force their retreat.
All of this is simply creating a negative feeling over the authorities, the police, the re-emergence of the virus, and blame going on between neighbors.
More escape attempts likely? I'd say it's a 100-percent chance.
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