Posted on 06/22/2023 6:40:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A spate of mass brawls in German outdoor swimming pools has led to calls for better security at the popular summer bathing spots.
As temperatures soar across the country, many people traditionally head for their local municipal outdoor swimming pool.
But over the last few years the start of summer has also been plagued by headlines of violence and mass brawls at open-air pools.
And this summer is no different.
A number of incidents have been reported in the last week alone.
On Wednesday evening dozens of police officers cleared and shut down an outdoor swimming pool in the Berlin district of Neukölln after a fight broke out at the slide.
On Monday another in the district of Pankow was closed by police after a dispute between two young people and two pool lifeguards descended into a mass brawl involving around 30 people.
And over the weekend there were injuries after a fight involving more than 40 people at a pool in the south-western German city of Mannheim. A 24-year-old man reportedly suffered knife injuries.
There are no official figures indicating whether violence at open-air municipal swimming pools is on the rise.
Pool operators in Berlin say that these are isolated headline-grabbing incidents that don't reflect the experience of millions of people who attend the thousands of state-run outdoor pools across Germany.
But police officials say they are concerned.
"The ability to resolve conflicts respectfully and without violence has reduced," Jochen Kopelke, the head of Germany's largest police trade union, told the German RND newspaper group.
The media debate is full of theories about what's behind brawls in outdoor pools.
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That wasn’t German those guys were speaking.
You will all be surprised to hear that I know....
I think headlines are really annoying, too.
They are not at all keen on Muslims either. The spirits of Hunyadi and Sobieski are alive.
It just never ends. Why can't we all just get along...
Because they hate us and want to exterminate us.
Hm, what could have changed in Germany over the last few years? Experts are still trying to determine a motive.
Das Bier ist immer schuld.
I looked at those pictures for blond-haired blue-eyed Aryan types. Came up dry. Whaddaya know?
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