Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, the world has been experiencing a purely Kafkaesque situation.<\/p>\n
We have reached the extreme, for example, of not being able to board a plane if you have a nail clipper in your pocket<\/strong>, in addition to enduring exhaustive controls before boarding that are imposed on everyone, in order to avoid stigmatising certain risk groups in the name of diversity<\/strong>. Although plane hijackings have been resolved, the problem has moved to another area: our streets.<\/p>\n In Spain<\/strong>, the only European country with external borders with Africa (in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla) and which has been experiencing a large wave of illegal immigration from that continent, knife attacks soared by 35% between 2018 and 2022<\/a>. In the areas of Spain that suffer the most immigration, the problem is really serious: in 2022, Madrid suffered 10 knife attacks a week<\/a>.<\/p>\n On the other hand, there were 13,844 knife-related crimes in Germany in 2023<\/a>, 1,489 more cases than the previous year. In June, Berlin's police chief acknowledged that most perpetrators of violence, including knife attacks, are migrants<\/a>. To give you an idea, Berlin has 3.6 million inhabitants<\/strong> and one million foreign residents<\/a>, so the proportion of violent crime perpetrators is higher among foreigners than among Germans. As much as some try to criminalize the mere statement of objective facts, this is not xenophobia, it is statistics.<\/strong><\/p>\n The problem is serious, but the authorities are resorting to absurd ideas to deal with it. A few weeks ago, a German police union proposed exchanging knives for Netflix subscriptions<\/a>, in an attempt to get these bladed weapons off the streets as quickly as possible. \"The most popular pocket knife costs \u20ac17 while an annual Netflix subscription amounts to \u20ac170<\/strong>, making the exchange worthwhile for anyone willing to dispose of their knives\"<\/em>, commented Zolt\u00e1n Kott\u00e1sz<\/a>, but obviously this price difference would lead to incentivizing the purchase of knives to get a Netflix account at 10% of their price<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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