Pretty wild weekend in Wiesbaden (my local town):
1. Grocery fight.
2. Guy attacking random people on the street.
3. Two gangs fighting in the city park.
4. Guy attacked by three hoodlums.
Perception? Well....twenty years ago, it was rare that the police got called in town to an authentic fight on the street. Now? I'd say from Friday night to Sunday night....there's probably a minimum of five 'events' that occur, and some weekends....it's up to a dozen.
Some of this is Covid-relief or people just stressed out....drinking excessively, and doing stupid things. Most of the perp's and victims? Between the ages of 15 to 35.
A trend? I think the police would say that their job and stress have gone up, and it's a bad trend.
In the case of the grocery attack....this was a kid who was on a banned list, but noted in the store. They simply went to the kid and asked him to leave.....he reacted by kicking the employee in the shin, and then all hell broke loose, with the police arriving and some kind of assault charge now likely out of this fracus.
No one says much of the banned list, but I would imagine more than 300 people from the city are on some store's banned list now, and it begs questions of where this trend is going.
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