More and more free baths to reinforce your security, because there will be riots. Young migrants from the Maghreb States are often regarded too hastily as a suspect. But then have to correct even the mayor.
Free baths have become “places of terror” – which, in the opinion of at least the President of the Association of German swimming champion, Peter resin home. And anyone who has followed the media coverage of the past days and weeks, can quickly gain the impression that the outdoor pool to the NoGo-Area of the summer has developed.
Bathrooms in Griesheim, Stuttgart, Kehl, Pankow, Berlin or Düsseldorf had to be because of the rampage, fisticuffs, or Overcrowding, or closed prematurely vacated. The düsseldorf Rheinbad after the third major incident within a month, a card control with a ribbon at the inlet. An employee of a security company to provide additional protection.
North Africans agreed hastily, as a group of perpetrators
The alleged perpetrators were identified in Dusseldorf fast: From 50 to 60 young people of North African or Arabic origin, the speech was relying on the police in various media, first of all. Swimming masters Association chief resin home said in a DW interview that in his view the North Africans from the Maghreb countries and the Arab world, our “values occur with the feet” and that the incidents had increased since 2015, the “exorbitant”. Düsseldorf’s mayor, Thomas Geisel (SPD) spoke of young people, “the North African origin were in part visible”.
The Rheinbad in Düsseldorf, Germany has been upgraded, after several incidents
Statistics about how many Attacks, or the escalation of conflicts in the nearly 3000 outdoor pools in Germany, is not there. Also not about the origin of the perpetrators. A few days after the events in Düsseldorf, the mayor, city Manager and baths society President in a press conference had to correct but a couple of things.
Responsible in Düsseldorf correct information
Reports about 60 young people exclusively of North African origin, the hostage had called on the weekend itself as a “youth gang”, were not applicable. “That here is an organized group behavior, is not the impression that comes to mind from the pictures,” said the mayor on Monday during a press conference.
Roland Kettler (l), managing Director of the Spa Association, Thomas Geisel (m), mayor of the city of Düsseldorf, and Burkhard Hintzsche, city Manager of Düsseldorf, at the press conference
City Director Burkhard Hintzsche, said that the video analysis had shown that to be involved by the time the police were called, much less young people had been as initially reported. And he added: “The message has gone over the media that we have here is a population of certain young people, which has not been confirmed, at least in the conversation with the police and other partners”.
In the Wake of the incidents on Friday in Düsseldorf, there were, according to police, two Ads because of the insult. Both offender with a German passport, both with a migration background.
The police Union is contrary to the floating master Association
In an interview with DW, the Chairman of the police Union in North Rhine-Westphalia, Michael Mertens criticized the statements of the swimming-masters-Association of chief resin home, since 2015, especially young people from the Maghreb would riot States. “I was taken aback by the clarity of the statement. I can’t confirm this, as there are in the meantime on the number and composition of people with different statements,” says Mertens.
“We have guardians of a lot of lack of respect for order,” he adds. “This is not only since 2015, a Problem that it was before. It is also a Problem of people with a migration background, but not only. The respect for institutions is lost, a total that will confirm to you each checker in the train, each lifeguard, each police officer.”
The lack of comparative data make it difficult to classify
The police must frequently move out to outdoor pools, can Mertens find but at least for Düsseldorf. However, the question of whether the incidents have increased in swimming pools significantly, or if there was, the Problem has always been, is to assess, due to the difficult data situation, hard to come by.
Thomas Bliesener, Director of the criminological research Institute in lower Saxony, says: “Even if you had data, it would be questionable whether one could compare this hot year 2019, for example, with the year 2017, where it has just rained,” says the forensic psychologist. “The fact that 2017 is less happened, it was certainly the weather.”
Wider society also provides in the outdoor pool of the potential for conflict
That it had earlier given a lower potential for conflict in German free baths, believes the renowned metropolis of researchers and cultural scientist Wolfgang Kaschuba. Many outdoor pools were built in the postwar period, and especially since the local children and young people had gone to the swimming pool, said Kaschuba in an interview with DW.
“There is no occasion for conflict,” says the former Director of the Berlin Institute for empirical integration and migration research. “Today, we have a more diverse and wider society, in the outdoor pools a lot more different groups, different generations meet.” The result is that The potential for conflict is rising – in the pool as in the society as a Whole.
Metropolis Researchers Wolfgang Kaschuba
To talk to such incidents like the one in Düsseldorf, Berlin or Hessen about the origin of the alleged perpetrators and those in certain groups, holds Kaschuba for little sense and is very meaningful – especially when you look at the composition of the society. “In Germany, it is to the third generation of Turkish or Arabic descent,” said Kaschuba. “Most are born here.”
Of course in such incidents, young people with a migrant background, so Kaschuba. “It is no wonder, if in the inner cities 50 per cent of the young people and the young men are Turkish, or Arabic descent.”
Researchers: pack in young men important factor
Young people with a migrant background were lighter than those without – even though they came from the same residential complex, of the same class or the same sports club. “And so we tend to focus on this as this is now primarily a migrant phenomenon,” said Kaschuba.
He even makes other reasons for the conflicts in the swimming pool: “hot, Tight, body, Party: If this comes together, and then also the two sexes: The automatically leads, especially among young men and male adolescents to pack.”
Full, full, indoor pool, outdoor pool
The heat, which can leave people according to various studies, more aggressive, plays according to the forensic psychologists Bliesener, but a rather minor role, in the outdoor pool you can cool off finally. Bliesener looks more of the group dynamics as a Problem. “It’s better to be the same. It has an audience – not just among his peers but also others look on. You can show since,” says the psychologist.
Police calls for more respect
Many outdoor pools in Germany are gearing up now, employ private security companies, which will assist the lifeguard for help. The NRW police Union chief Mertens calls: “We need to establish clear rules, you must not make people limitless to the pool.” And, he is convinced: “in General, the company must come back to the values compared with authorities who have earned the people.”