Two pretty stupid comments to kick it off, this is going well.
This is the city closest to where I live, and I have to say, it's certainly crazy to have this happen here of all places.
No, there certainly is no problem with police brutality here. There's not even a problem with crime. 635k inhabitants, 2 murders in 2018. To calibrate, OKC has a similar size and had 93 murders in 2017.
We did have the sword attack in daylight last year, but you still get the picture.
The city is home to Daimler, and Bosch and Porsche are also headquartered nearby. In other words, it's not a posh city, but by German standards, there is a high quality of living, low crime rate, and was considered benchmark regarding integration of other nationalities.
Even our "problem areas", I mean, a nationally known comedian once said that what we consider a ghetto here would be considered upper middle class in Cologne.
It looks like it was mainly young people with a migration background who were at the forefront of the riots," says Hans-Jürgen Kirstein (54), head of the GdP (police Union, JDragon) .
Police deputy Thomas Berger announced yesterday: Of 24 arrested, 12 were Germans, three with migration background. The other half came from Bosnia, Portugal, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. They are "from the party scene", which has been boasting about aggressive behaviour against the police in social media for weeks.
A video shows rioters in the city centre shouting "Allahu Akbar! Eyewitnesses confirm the calls to BILD.
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