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Originally Posted by Shearwater
It is. I really wouldn't worry if I were you.
As a sidenote though: Two days ago I read an interesting SPIEGEL article about the police situation in Düsseldorf. Just imagine: A city of almost 600,000 inhabitants and a police force of only 60 officers (IIRC). It's relatively calm, but only because there are very few serious crimes. If the situation blew up one day, they would indeed be pretty short on personnel to deal with the situation.
Then again, it really is a safe country, and the First of May is really an exceptional day when it comes to violent protests (even more so in Berlin, I guess).
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I think I have read the same. It was reported by that anonymous police officer, right? To be fair, as I understood it, those 60 officers were not for all the city, but one district of it, or did I got that wrong? However, most telephone calls that got listed for the reported night got turned down again by HQ: not enough vehicles, not enough crews.
But Shearwater is right, in general germany is a safe country, still. Only in some places I would be careful to go alone, or at night. the no go areas in Berlin fopr example include places now that 20 years ago I did not hestate to walk by night, all alone.
In Bavaria, three or four days ago two juvenile thugs tried to steal money from three or four little children. A 50 year old man intervened in a display of civil courage - and got beaten and kicked to death by these thugs in the following two minutes.
Unfortunately, events like this seem to happen more often with years going by. we have had several cases now of people being beaten and kicked close to death in public transportation systems in German cities. These crimes displayed an almost complete lack of any scruples and natural inhibitions, and as the police summarises, a new quality in the readiness to use brutality, and a new quality in the level of violence and brutality being shown.