What wonderful times those were, when you could visit an open-air swimming pool with the whole family without fear of getting into a mass brawl. Unfortunately, these times are over in more and more regions of Germany.
Three reports have been circulating in the last few days: In Kaufbeuren in Bavaria, three girls aged 12 were sexually harassed by a group of six. At the Bosen lido on Bostalsee in the tranquil Saarland, two families got into a wild fight over a barbecue area last Sunday.
And in the Steglitz district of Berlin, one hundred young men turned on each other after a fight with water pistols.
The perpetrator profile is the same in all cases: young Muslim men – or families with a migration background – with such a fragile sense of honour that a few splashes of water can cause them to be upset.
Germans who have money and space are therefore more and more often building a pool in their backyard, which probably also explains why our politicians have not been particularly interested in the outdoor pool as a crime scene.
Those who enjoy swimming at home, isolated from the “rabble”, do not have to worry about fellow citizens with a culturally determined low tolerance for frustration.
As in other areas, only ordinary citizens are expected to bear the consequences of migration.
That is antisocial. But in a country where the Minister of the Interior still talks about successful integration in the face of such scenes, it is not surprising.