New Burgrainer playground "Burgi": drugs, knives and rioting

Disturbing scenes on the new "Burgi" playground in Burgrain: young people attack with knives, drugs have appeared on playground equipment and the noise for residents in the middle of the night is enormous.

Now the market town sends security personnel.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

- The name sounds cute. But what happens in the evening at the new “Burgi” playground in Burgrain has nothing to do with fun and games. Riot and noise after 10 p.m., a packet of cannabis and a child who attacked with a knife and got a cut on the neck. These grievances occurred in the past twelve days, said Alexandra Roos-Teitscheid (Greens) in the Garmisch-Partenkirchner municipal council. The market had to act. Since Thursday evening, the security staff has been locking the new playground punctually at 8 p.m. and sending children and teenagers home.

It is unclear whether this will eliminate the developments of the past two weeks.

Roos-Teitscheid, who lives in Burgrain, has found that “a huge social hot spot” has emerged.

Certainly a playground creates noise.

But the sound of the evening is different.

“There's a lot of noise,” she explains.

Young people meet on the facility - and they are not there to swing.

13-year-old threatens father and son with knife - the next day he stabs another young person

The stories told to Roos-Teitscheid from the population prove this. The incident in which a young person is said to have attacked another with a knife, whereupon he and his father came to the scene of the incident, sounds particularly drastic. The adolescent then threatened his father, who turned the police on. On the following day, the person concerned is said to have threatened another: "If you want trouble, you have it now." Then there was a gash on the boy's neck.

Kripo chief Richard Listle confirms the incident, but is not allowed to report anything about ongoing proceedings.

Colleague Christian Langenmair, head of the inspection, would like to make it clear: “It is not that we have a focal point.” The local police react in their own way, involve youth officials and set up a program with the help of which the situation can be clarified want.

PI boss Langenmair speaks of a "personal approach".

You want to make sure "that the person is really taken care of." Apparently, it is about a 13-year-old who is known to the officials.

In this way, the police also want to "avert danger to third parties".

Vice-mayor doesn't want anything negative to have been noticed at the playground

City councilor Roos-Teitscheid also pleaded for alliance with the youth center so that one could send one's children there alone with a clear conscience. "Please be very, very careful, I have a bad stomachache," she appealed. It is not about bullying anyone. They just want the “most beautiful playground in the local area” not to fall into disrepute.

The residents' complaints have also reached the town hall. Vice-Mayor Claudia Zolk (CSB) has stopped by several times and only found children playing. Gross violations "did not occur to me". As a short-term solution, the community sends its security over in the evening. If the situation does not ease, "we will send you there more often". In this way, the problems on Wettersteinstrasse were also resolved. There, too, residents had complained of disturbing young people during the night.