We had an odd robbery in Wiesbaden in the middle of the week.
Non-German (because of accent apparently)....came into the mid-town area (right at the shopping district)....to a grocery main office and pulled a pistol on two employees. Safe was forced open, and the guy took off with several thousand Euro.
So, he's running down one of the main avenues of town, and the police are called into action. They actually go into a chase.
Somewhere along the way....the guy loses the bundle of cash. Escape is successful, but the money is returned to the grocery.
It's a general trend where you start to see more potentially violent robberies (at least once a month)....mostly with just the threat of a knife....couple of times now with a pistol in the guy's hand. It's stuff you wouldn't have seen in the 1980s/1990s.
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I seriously doubt if I will ever visit Germany again. The Germany of my youth is definitely gone. I never visited East Germany while on AD but a couple of years ago I did drive through the East on my way to Berlin and I stopped in a small town and just for a very brief time did I get that down home folksy old Germany feeling.
I think in small towns (say 10k or less), you still have the 1980s atmosphere. Cities of 200k? Magnets for trouble. Things changed after the wall came down. I might suggest even Covid has changed things....a number of businesses have run into hard times.
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