Saturday, July 29, 2023

Berlin City Park Story

 On the SE end of Berlin is Gorlitzer Park....which I would describe as 150 meters wide and maybe 700 meters long.  From the late 1800s, to around 1959....this was a railway station.  Then in the 1980s....it was supposed to be 'modeled' into a city park....which was opened in 1994.

What you can generally say from 1994 on (as a unified Berlin)....it became a drug-hub.  If you wanted drugs....if you wanted to partake in drugs....if you wanted find crime, this was the place.  Locals around the area know, and have been very bitter about what the city did.

Around 21 June....a group of guys came up on a couple....held the guy off, while the group raped the lady-friend.

Cops have been investigating and have arrested some folks. 

Well....in the city, there's now a fair amount of pressure....to end crime-design of the park.  Either tear it down and put up condos.....or bring in a fair number of cops and charge people with crimes.  

How it got this way?  More of less....the city prosecutors for the past three decades have decided to just look the other way, and let drug traffic continue.

The city council now in a bad position?   Literally everyone in the city has heard of the rape, and agree on what happened over three decades to the park.  

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