At some point this morning (9 AM, Tuesday), over in Frankfurt at the Bahnhof-quarter (the district in front and to the sides of the train station)....a guy just started attacking locals with a knife (at random).
Some got some pretty nasty cuts....some less so. HR (our public TV outlet covered the basic story).
The police eventually came to 'control' the guy.
The district? Well....over the past twenty years, this neighborhood has seriously changed, and I'd describe it as a place where you'd exit the station rather quickly and proceed on....through the needles on the ground, the dealers, and the junkies in various stages.
If you were stationed around Frankfurt in the 1970s/1980s....this was an interesting point to show up....McDonalds and Burger King were there, and the show-piece of Frankfurt (the station itself) stood there for you to admire. You could walk from there into the subway area in a matter of minutes, or exit to walk to the downtown shopping district in twenty minutes.
If you walk around the interior of the station now....there's at least two police patrols always roaming, and out in front....for probably half the day, there's a two-man patrol roaming to note problems.
This guy with the knife? Probably a junkie on some heroin trip and just earned himself a one-year stay in some prison system....to dry-up and get off the drugs.
The trust in walking anywhere around the Bahnhof-quarter? Even in the subway passages under the station....you need to keep moving and view everything in the landscape with a suspicious 'eye'.
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