Summary
Germany is enforcing a strict knife ban at Christmas markets as part of a new security package passed in October following a deadly knife attack in Solingen that killed three and injured eight.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser pledged “strict enforcement” and “zero tolerance,” with fines of up to €10,000 for violations.
The ban applies to knives at festivals, markets, and large events, with police ensuring compliance.
The measures aim to enhance safety at Germany’s iconic markets, which have already seen one unrelated injury this season.
Sausage bun sellers hate this
Is that just a ban on bringing knives or a ban on selling them as well? A ban on knife sales, during Christmas time, in a city famous for knives, seems a bit weird.
Just wait until they hear about pointed sticks.
You can still buy and transport knives, they just have to be in a “locked” container. Basically just not easily accessible.
Not sure why you are getting down voted, that is literally how the law works. If you buy a knife at the market and transport it inside it’s packaging you are allowed to carry it with you
Unfortunately this just amounts to symbolic politics:
- anyone seriously willing to hurt others will ignore it or find ways around it
- the general public is mildly inconvenienced by any measures to enforce/control it
How to enforce it? Random searches, metal detectors? Seems unconstitutional.
Unconstitutional in regards to which constitution?
The German Grundgesetz.
Not really. The police can search you without cause, it’s the whole reason “Waffenverbotszonen” exist.
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The declaration of a weapons-free zone makes searches legal. If you don’t want to be searched, you’re free to not enter.
If you don’t want to be searched, you’re free to not enter
Yeah, that’s all fine and dandy until you realize this also applies to train stations, which for many people that don’t own a car are not places they can avoid going to unless they want to lose their job and ability to travel
Not in general I don’t think so. Probably depends on whether you’re talking about Frankfurt HBf or some forgotten platform at the arse end of the heath.
Courts are generally quite on top of making sure that those zones are very specific. All four of duration, time of day, space, and cause.
And, of course, over-regional train station are federal police jurisdiction. In SH that’s a downgrade when it comes to the quality of officers, in Bavaria an upgrade. Also in Hamburg which yes is still a police state. You get some, you lose some.
For entry to private events? I doubt it, it’s not just searching people randomly on the street.
