As of: February 16, 2024, 12:32 p.m
By: Lena Bammert
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V-Markt boss Mario Vidak finds damage such as torn-out bull bars almost every day.
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Speeders on Ingolstädter Straße, car poser meetings in the parking lot: The V-Markt in the Euro-Industriepark has recently had repeated problems with drivers.
Now the market is taking countermeasures.
If you look through Mario Vidak's office window, you can see a large supermarket parking lot for 600 cars.
When the head of the V-Markt looks out, he sees a problem area.
And traces of destruction that hundreds of car posers leave behind here almost every weekend.
For example, the disabled parking sign that was knocked over, the dented shopping cart shelter and, most recently, on the far left at the self-service gas station: the shattered window through which one of the car posers fell while playing soccer in the parking lot.
Barriers are levered out, protective arches torn out
Vidak sees the black brake strips that run through the entire area - despite the speed bumps and car barriers, despite the stones and bull bars that are supposed to ensure peace and quiet.
The barriers: undermined.
The crash protection bars: pulled out of the anchorage.
The speed bumps and stones: not sufficient.
“At some point it gets annoying,” says Vidak.
A parking sign was simply driven over © Mario Vidak
The thing with the car posers and the V-Markt actually “started small in the evenings,” says Vidak.
20 to 30 tuners presented their cars and drove a few races, the “older generation,” says Vidak.
Then the pandemic came.
And with it younger people.
A meeting point for 400 to 500 car posers
According to Vidak, there are now 400 to 500 posers racing towards each other in the parking lot, only to swerve out of the way or drive into his shopping carts at 100 kilometers per hour.
“We were all young and did a lot of nonsense, but they don’t let anyone talk to them at all, the respect is gone,” says Vidak.
On a Saturday in November 2020, police busted a poser party.
The result: 162 mostly young men from all over Upper Bavaria between the ages of 18 and 30 were reported, during Corona times because of the Infection Protection Act.
There were also 105 speeders who were stopped by the police around the parking lot.
After that there was silence for a while.
And then it started again.
Monthly damage amounts to up to 8,000 euros
Vidak has to spend an additional 5,000 to 8,000 euros a month - just to repair damage and buy barriers and the like.
And to pay the cleaning company that clears the area early in the morning of all the rubbish, burger wrappers and drink cups.
Sometimes there are even tires lying around.
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Shopping carts are simply wrecked.
© Mario Vidak
Residents, many of them regular customers, keep coming and complaining about the garbage.
Or you can write an email to headquarters straight away.
“They don’t know how much work we have to do with them every day,” says Vidak about the car posers.
The market manager is investigating the perpetrators himself
At some point, market manager Vidak literally became a detective.
When he realized that the car posers were meeting on social media, he logged on to TikTok and scanned the videos of the “Blacklist Munich” group, who pimp their cars and meet in garages and parking lots on the weekends and film everything.
He compared the license plates on the videos with the speeders at the V-Markt and reported the overlap to the police.
Vidak's cell phone is full of photos of cars with front-end damage and videos from surveillance cameras of young people stealing fire extinguishers from gas stations or falling into windows.
“So far we have only ever had property damage, we have to do something now while no one has been injured,” says Vidak.
Police support the countermeasures
That's why the excavator now comes in - and tears out all the crash protection bars in order to then concrete them in bomb-proof manner.
All entrances will be restricted; outside opening hours, only the area near the self-service gas station can be accessed.
Cameras are being installed and more speed bumps are being purchased.
The cameras are intended to record violations and license plates.
“Then it’s about trespassing and money.
They’re not allowed to have fun anymore,” says Vidak.
The store manager has a good connection with the responsible police station.
Officials also believe that the new measures will finally calm the situation.
“I still can’t believe 100 percent that we can do it,” says Vidak, but he won’t give up.
“I have new ideas every day,” he says.