In my local region...over the weekend, in Nauheim....cops got called. From what the public TV folks report....an incident occurred at a beverage shop.
What the authorities say....an encounter occurred with the beverage shop clerk and a customer (guy in his 30s). The clerk advised the customer on social distancing. No one says what exactly the customer did wrong, but that simple advice on the distancing apparently set the customer off.
I've often commented about Covid-19 frustrations and how so many Germans have a bit of frustration built up.
The customer set into a fit of rage....hit the clerk, knocking him back, and set off toward the exit. On the way out....with a knife out at this point....he stabbed some year-old customer at the door. Serious wound but the customer survived.
Authorities didn't have much of a problem tracking him down to his residence....but that encounter with the police also led to more physical violence.
Charges? At least three or four minimal....probably attempted-murder in the mix and violent assault on the policeman. He might be looking at 15-plus years for this encounter and hostility over the social distance 'warning'.
One can make the comment that a lot of people are building up their stress levels, and it doesn't take much to set them off.
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