It was an odd event on the Mehringplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg over the weekend.
What the cops say? Well....an argument started up (5 PM, Sunday). No one can say how the argument started, what was the topic, or if alcohol or drugs were part of the landscape.
When the police did arrive....what they found were two families mostly in the situation of a brawl, and 70 total individuals fighting.
Oddly enough....on Friday, there was another brawl reported....lesser number of participants (maybe 30).
Police investigation over both? Yeah.
I'm guessing no one will volunteer much, and each will be closed after a couple of weeks of police work.
I'm always interested in these events and how they got started. It could have been some love-issue, some cheating spouse, just a marginal insult, or perhaps a business deal that fell apart.
You didn't have these much back in the 1980s. This is mostly a oddity of the past twenty years. I partly blame urbanism, alcohol/drug-use, and macho behavior.
I suspect the German police hate these events because you arrive and there's immediately a threat to your safety, and you simply want the brawl to end. Plus....they probably hate the investigation phase because no one wants to admit they were arguing over some gay-lover, or some drug-deal, or some insult about being 'fat'.
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