Half of the respondents said they feel unsafe in public places, on the streets and on public transportation. Eight years ago, that figure was only half as high.
The greatest fears relate to theft and verbal attacks in public. Less common are concerns about becoming a victim of physical or sexual assault or a terrorist attack.
People are paranoid lunatics and keep falling for never ending scaremongering propaganda in the media.
Yeah, everytime this topic comes up I ask if they personally had such an experience or have personally witnessed one, and it is always only some 3rd person story from social media or so. Truely terrifying how people can be manipulated like that.
Relevant Rammstein music video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ONj9cvHCado
Why is the media peddling scaremongering propaganda tho?
Money.
Not DW, they are publicly funded.
Doesn‘t help the head of state is a scaremongering lunatic himself.
Just to be correct: You are probably referring to the Chancellor (Merz). Thats the head of the government.
The head of the state would be the president (Steinmeier), who - as far as I know - has not expressed such rhetoric.
The German president is merely a ceremonial figurehead, though. Pretty much akin to what constitutional monarchies have a king or queen for.
The few and little actual powers he has, he rarely exercises. Thanks to the way he is elected, he of course is a loyal card carrying member of one of the big parties, and won’t really go against the general political agenda.
And yet he is the formal head of state. Which was all I said.
I agree. Common people are stupid, have no authentic experiences, and are easily manipulated sheep.
Yaa true, I was quite surprised about this fear" fact-check" when I found out. Also, in general it’s also true on a more global scale.
Fear is a strong emotion and public fear will aways somewhat influence individuals. Imo, if you are aware enough, you might deflect most of that fear. It’s the animalistic part inside you that migh be affected because of the (evolutionary group) instict.
Added: Just realised I forgot to mention a huge caveat: Safety is a feeling which was compared to crime data. But maybe the fear people feel isn’t about crime data, but a reaction to ( geopolitical) changing times.
If so, it would be interesting to see an investigation trying to find out what and where this fear comes from, when it’s clear that it’s not crime. I do think media is partly to blame and hypothise this to be an important factor. But maybe some other unexpected reasons might become clear ( I’ll do a bit of search myself).
Update; the whole fear, media influence, immigration propaganda etc is quite complex . Basically the fear people have depends on economic status; so fear of this month’s rent or fear of the end of the world. Basically inflation, economy and jobloss.
Another take I found, is based on the assumption that European culture is depressing perse, and prefers tragedy over comedy. Europeans see many things " lacking" and wrong in this world.
FYI some links: