After rampages

How safe are our pedestrian zones really?

Many shopping streets are regularly evaluated and, if necessary, retrofitted with bollards or troughs.(Bild: Martin A. Jöchl)

Pedestrian zones have recently become crime scenes twice. The city is also alarmed. But when asked, they feel well prepared. 

In mid-February, a rampage in Munich caused horror. A young mother and her baby lost their lives. On Monday, there was another rampage in Mannheim (also in Germany) - this time, too, two people were killed. Countless bystanders were injured, some of them seriously. And now, on Monday evening, the small truck that crashed into the plague column on Wiener Graben. Only by a miracle was no one injured.