Two young thugs beat up and almost killed a 76-year-old in a Munich subway station. They attacked him because he told them to stop smoking in the train. [...]
The incident might lead people to ask what price is to be paid for forcing whole social groups and whole generations into an underclass without a future. [...] It would be good for the whole of society if one could ensure that people are safe in parks and in the subway [...]. But that is not what people are talking about: they are talking about "violent foreigners."
These people are to be deported or put in re-education camps – such are the imaginative proposals of the Christian Democrats – at the very least, the punishments for young offenders should be drastically increased.
The law-and-order populists who are now taking to their soapboxes [...] have to be told: prisons are not appropriate institutions for learning how to live the right life. They are rather academies of violence.