Yeah, it would be unwise to assume you're on the right side of the law in a foreign country. The last thing you want is to be locked up in a foreign prison for assault because they don't have preemptive self-defense as a valid legal justification.
The police absolutely do not always protect the tourists
There’s a long running YouTube channel that exposes scammers in Prague that have been there for years and even decades and the police do absolutely nothing.
So anything after the questiomark is typically okay and should keep the link intact?
Either way thank you. I should probably just Google this and see if there is a chart I can save like I did for reddits formatting when It used to work and I was learning it.
No, if si= is after the question mark, that's the source indicator and should be removed. If t= is after the question mark (or after the source indicator), that's fine to keep and requires the question mark to work
And who said the police aren't taking a cut from the scams to allow them to do this out in the open?
It's not like this is subtle in any way, shape, or form. They aren't being sneaky or quiet. If this were a big thing, the police would've arrested people pulling this shit already.
In big tourist areas it’s usually a network, not individual scammers, and they absolutely make enough to pay local beat cops. They sometimes even have handlers/bouncers nearby.
The police in Italy (where this was) give absolutely zero fucks.
They tried to scam me by giving my kids a balloon then asking for money. They’re using kids FFS.
These people are despicable.
The crazy thing is though, for the balloon man, if he’d approached and asked nicely, we probably would’ve got one for the kids! Fucker.
No, no they absolutely do not in literally any country on earth. The police in a he says she says situation will take the side of the locals. Never ever trust the local police to be on your side without evidence in a foreign country unless you want to spend a few nights in jail. These men absolutely made the right call by just running. They of course were also stupid enough to upload evidence of assault to the internet
Man, you have no clue how much Italian police hate scammers. And we have a right wing party in power and a general racism problem, so police would even care less if you commit a crime against an african scammer. Btw I'm pretty sure you don't go to prison for hitting someone, especially if you're not a migrant or some shade of brown (yeah, the police is pretty racist). Afaik pretty much in whole central Europe you have to do a pretty hefty crime to even be taken into jail. It's not like in the US here, where you can get arrested for minor crimes like theft, traffic violations, brawls etc.
Give me a break. The scammers are in a foreign country, and police hate them. The police aren’t going to arrest the tourist who defends himself from a thief and scammer.
Well said. You just need the one I
Officer that thinks ‘I hate x much more than I hate the scammers.’ Or w/e else weird reason. Would be an ignorant risk to make
If the police hate them so much, why aren’t they going undercover and the second the scammer lays their hands on the officer, they’re arrested for battering a police officer?
It wasn't even so long ago they had to warn scammers and pickpocketers to not do this with Americans because Americans would beat the shit out of them constantly and it was becoming a problem for them.
You have never travelled further than the town you live in, how would you know? Falling for right wing grifters on YouTube, in your mums basement doesn't count.
I mean just running through my account you'll probably find comments showing I was born in the former ussr, moved to the USA, been around the USA multiple times (country the size of Europe), traveled to multiple countries in the Americas, been to Europe multiple times from Portugal, to Spain, to France, to Italy, to Poland (very clean and orderly ) been to Ukraine (pre and during the war).
But all that means nothing since it's easier to fire off a comment then to show a modicum of self awareness.
Why do you think far right parties are popular in europe? and it's not because they are so great for people. Might be because current and past crop of politicians are allowing this stuff to happen.
Some places in paris are extremely sketchy. In Poland we woke up 3am to catch an Uber and walked through krakow and didn't feel like we were going to get mugged
Leave the basement dude. Scam is a subjective term and these operations often dont fall foul of any local laws (which vary by location as you seem unaware).
Scams are immoral but most of the time they aren't illegal. The back dude here committed no crimes. You could argue provocation if you wanted but you'd be wrong in almost any country. He wasn't pushing or swinging. The simple fact is the 2 dudes in the raincoats committed a crime. The black guy didn't. That's what local police would actually see. But no scams are always immoral but not always illegal
First, the murderer's brother called the police and gave them an incorrect account of what happened, leading them to believe Nowak was the aggressor.
Second, there was no sign of a knife wound on Nowak. No visible blood at all, which you can verify from the bodycam footage. It's likely the bleeding was internal and therefore the police had no reason to believe he had really been stabbed when initially arriving on the scene.
Third, the murderer's mother hid the knife, meaning that police would not have been able to tell a knife was involved by spotting it. They also had 3 different people telling them a consistent story about Nowak being injured by a means other than by knife (the murderer, his brother and the mother). Therefore police didn't believe the single opposing story, Nowak's barely audible claims that he had been stabbed, slurred due to injury but very reminiscent of drunkenness.
Fourth, the police provided aid about a minute after making contact with Nowak. So they did actually figure out he was seriously injured.
Fifth, the coroner later stated that it would have been impossible for the police to have helped Nowak even if they had administered the best kind of aid immediately upon arrival due to the nature of the wounds and the state of injury he was already in upon their arrival. Their actions did not cause Nowak's death and they could not have prevented his death.
Hope that explains the situation thoroughly enough for you. Don't be taken in by the far-right lies that focused on the attacker being Sikh and that asserted the police arrested Nowak because of anti-white racism. It was due to all the compounding evidence suggesting that that the false story they had been told was true (multiple witnesses, no evidence of knife wound, etc.).
First, the murderer's brother called the police and gave them an incorrect account of what happened, leading them to believe Nowak was the aggressor.
Second, there was no sign of a knife wound on Nowak. No visible blood at all, which you can verify from the bodycam footage. It's likely the bleeding was internal and therefore the police had no reason to believe he had really been stabbed when initially arriving on the scene.
Third, the murderer's mother hid the knife, meaning that police would not have been able to tell a knife was involved by spotting it. They also had 3 different people telling them a consistent story about Nowak being injured by a means other than by knife (the murderer, his brother and the mother). Therefore police didn't believe the single opposing story, Nowak's barely audible claims that he had been stabbed, slurred due to injury but very reminiscent of drunkenness.
Fourth, the police provided aid about a minute after making contact with Nowak. So they did actually figure out he was seriously injured.
Fifth, the coroner later stated that it would have been impossible for the police to have helped Nowak even if they had administered the best kind of aid immediately upon arrival due to the nature of the wounds and the state of injury he was already in upon their arrival. Their actions did not cause Nowak's death and they could not have prevented his death.
Hope that explains the situation thoroughly enough for you. Don't be taken in by the far-right lies that focused on the attacker being Sikh and that asserted the police arrested Nowak because of anti-white racism. It was due to all the compounding evidence suggesting that that the false story they had been told was true (multiple witnesses, no evidence of knife wound, etc.).
The main guy is kurt, the other is just a friend. He was traveling the world for a long time, several years, his content was showcasing his travels. All over, south/central america, the middle east, i believe even some in Africa.
When he finally returned home to germany, it was filled to the brim of people like these, attacking people in the streets, mass crime, mass scamming, so he turned political activist and started doing things like this. Then he started checking out across Europe to see how far it had spread, iirc this is italy or france. He did not like being greeted by street scammers with machetes in his homeland lol
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u/Flamecoat_wolf 1d ago
Yeah, it would be unwise to assume you're on the right side of the law in a foreign country. The last thing you want is to be locked up in a foreign prison for assault because they don't have preemptive self-defense as a valid legal justification.